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INew   Woodstock 
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Past  and  Present 


•a-  Compiled  by  -^ 
Mrs.  An^olette  D.  Cllsworth 

AND 

Miss  Mary  B.  Richmond 


"We  twa  ha'e  run  about  the  braes, 
And  pu'd  the  gowans  fine." 


CA7ENOV1A,    N.  Y.  '. 
J.  A.  LOYSTER.    PRINTER. 
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PREFACE. 


^1 N  a  history  as  limited  as  this  must  of  necessity  be,  beginning 
in  the  latter  part  of  the  eighteenth  century,  extending  through 
the  nineteenth,  and  ending  in  the  first  year  of  the  twentieth,  one 
feels  that  only  the  merest  outline  is  in  many  cases  given.  In  the 
general  sketches  of  New  Woodstock  and  West  Woodstock,  an  ef- 
fort has  been  made  to  avoid  repetition,  yet  to  mention  the  early 
settlers  of  whom  there  are  no  personal  sketches.  The  work  has 
been  difficult  and  is  incomplete,  owing  to  the  lapse  of  time  making 
the  data  obtainable  not  always  reliable. 

The  compilers  have  been  agreeably  surprised  at  the  interest 
manifested  by  nearly  all  the  inhabitants  of  New  Woodstock,  as 
well  as  by  many  who  formerly  resided  here,  and  are  grateful  to 
those  who  have  helped  to  carry  forward  the  work  to  completion. 

They  desire  particularly  to  acknowledge  their  obligations  to 
Hon.  L.  L.  Ainsworth,  of  West  Union,  Iowa;  Henry  C.  I/yon,  of 
Boston,  Mass.;  the  late  Mrs.  Jane  Underwood  and  her  children, 
Prof.  L.  M.  Underwood,  of  Columbia  University,  and  Miss  Sarah 
J.  Underwood,  of  New  York  ;  Miss  Mary  Fiske,  of  Detroit,  Mich. ; 
E.  W.  Moffett,  of  Fayetteville,  and  H.  M.  Kellogg,  of  Cortland 


A  Friendly  Endorsement. 


BOSTON,  Mass.,  November  26,  1900. 
DEAR  FRIENDS: — 

So  you  are  going  to  print  a  book  about  New  Woodstock  ?  Well  the 
only  wonder  is  that  no  one  has  ever  "sot  out"  to  do  this  before  the  end  of 
the  blessed  Nineteenth  century,  for  although  it  is  a  little  city — a  very 
little  city  if  you  please,  it  is  one  of  the  dearest  places  on  earth,  and  one  of 
the  most  picturesque  in  location.  Its  charms  are  recognized  not  only  by 
its  own  sons  and  daughters,  but  by  strangers  as  well.  "As  the  mountains 
are  round  about  Jerusalem,  so  is  the  Lord  round  about  his  people,"  is  one 
of  those  fascinating  passages  of  Holy  Writ,  that  was  perpetually  getting 
paraphrased  in  my  youthful  mind  something  after  this  sort:  "As  the 
mountains  are  round  about  Jerusalem,  so  are  the  beautiful  hills  round 
about  this  lovely  village;"  and  I  do  not  think  it  would  have  been  very 
foreign  to  the  spirit  of  my  love  for  my  native  village  to  have  called  it 
"Zion,  city  of  our  God  "  for  was  it  not  the  embodiment  of  all  that  was 
good  and  sacred  to  my  youthful  mind  ? 

This  love  for  New  Woodstock  has  never  grown  cold.  No  blasting  dis- 
illusionment of  later  years  and  wider  wanderings  has  ever  fallen  upon  my 
ideal  of  the  childhood  time.  Her  streets,  her  homes,  her  stately  maples, 
her  lovely  environment  of  valley  and  hill,  are  all  as  tenderly  loved  and  as 
enthusiastically  admired  by  me  today  as  when  they  constituted  the  only 
world  I  knew.  Fifty-three  years,  full  of  as  eventful  experiences  as  many 
(  f  my  latter  ones  have  been,  are  quite  enough  to  dispel  the  veil  of  youth- 
ful delusion,  (if  it  were  only  that.)  But  this  has  not  been  the  case.  Time 
and  experience  have  only  confirmed  my  pride  and  love  for  the  nestling 
village  between  the  encircling  hills.  I  have  carried  into  many  foreign 
countries  fondest  memories  of  the  place  which  comprehended  my  "world" 
for  the  first  twenty  years  of  my  life.  There  dwell  many  of  my  surest,  tried 
andbest-known  friends  and  kindred, andinits  quiet  cemetery  sleep  so  many 
loved  ones  of  the  long  ago. 

It  is  perhaps  a  bit  paradoxical,  but  we  discover  that  the  serious  and 
dignified  is  often  next-door  neighbor  to  the  whimsical  and  the  trifling;  so 


HISTORY    OF    NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


that  coupled  with  stately  memories  of  the  olden  time  are  groups  of  frivo- 
lous events  that  live  as  truly  as  the  more  important  ones.  I  find  myself 
recalling  with  equal  vividness  the  tones  and  gestures  of  Reverend  John 
Fulton  in  the  pulpit  of  the  old  Baptist  church,  and  the  delicious  pearmain 
apples  which  at  "nooning  time"  used  to  get  fished  out  of  the  profound 
.pockets  of  Erastus  Abott's  great  gray  overcoat.  How  I  used  to  look 
for  those  apples  !  And  I  never  looked  in  vain.  His  kindly  eyes 
and  his  hearty  goodwill  added  a  relish  to  those  delicious  apples  that 
made  them  little  less  than  ambrosial  in  their  delicacy.  I  recall  that 
remarkable  man,  Philetus  Lathrop,  than  whom  a  more  honest  or  worthy 
soul  never  honored  a  town  with  his  citizenship.  When  pennies  were 
scarce  in  the  family  exchequer,  my  mother  often  gave  me  an  egg  in  the 
morning,  as  I  started  for  school,  with  which  I  was  to  secure  for  my- 
st-lf  a  "cent's  worth"  of  some  goody  at  the  store.  On  a  certain  evil  day  I 
fell  down  in  the  road  and  to  my  great  consternation,  cracked  the  hen's 
egg  most  unmistakably.  With  the  unerring  instincts  of  a  child,  I  took  my 
cracked  and  oozy  egg  that  morning  to  "Squire"  Lathrop,  feeling  that  he 
was  the  only  one  from  whom  I  could  reasonably  expect  the  acceptance  of 
my  damaged  collateral,  and  I  was  not  disappointed.  That  tender-hearted 
though  solemn-visaed  man  took  my  egg  and  gave  me  its  full  equivalent 
in  candy;  and  then  breaking  it  carefully  into  a  saucer,  fed  it  to  his  old 
black  and  white  pet  cat.  A  little  matter,  you  say.  I  beg  to  differ.  It  was 
a  transaction  worth}' of  the  attention  of  the  Recording  Angel,  and  one  I 
shall  never  forget.  It  spoke  volumes  for  the  character  of  that  lonely 
bachelor  merchant.  I  bless  his  memory  to  this  day  for  not  wounding  my 
childish  feelings  by  spurning  me  and  my  broken  egg  from  his  store.  Are 
there  are  any  little  things  in  this  life?  Measured  by  the  highest  standards 
a  smile  or  a  touch  of  the  hand  may  outweigh  the  transactions  of  a  Roths- 
child or  a  Rockefeller. 

I  recall  the  day  when  the  "Cow  Shed"  block  was  raised,  and  with 
what  admiring  wonder  I  watched  the  daring  exploit  of  Nelson  Durfee  in 
walking  out  on  the  plate  with  a  commander  in  his  hands  and  pounding 
mortise  and  tenon  together.  I  had  never  seen  such  a'  venturesome  deed 
before,  and  had  he  been  a  thousand  feet  from  the  ground  instead  of  a  pos- 
sible forty,  he  could  not  have  been  a  greater  hero  to  me. 

But  I  must  not  dwell  longer  on  trifles,  which  however,  are  not  alto- 
gether trifles,  for  our  lives  are  so  largely  made  up  of  just  such  things. 
Our  web  of  life  is  woven  of  alternate  sunrises  and  sunsets,  waxing  and 
waning  moons,  fond  greetings,  sad  farewells,  and  shifting  lights  and 
shades.  Most  sincerely  yours, 

HENRY  CORBIN  LYON. 


HISTORY    OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK. 


Copy  of  E.  L.  Abbott's  Letter. 


SANDAWAY,  ARRACAN,  June  1848. 
Rev.  and  dear  Father  Peck:  — 

Bro.  Bright  of  Boston,  forwarded  to  me  overland  a  slip  form  the  New 
York  Bap.  Register,  conveying  to  me  the  mournful  intelligence  of  the 
work  death  had  made  in  your  family.  I  left  you  all  in  good  heath  and 
this  was  the  first  intelligence  I  had  received.  I  cannot  express  to  you 
how  much  I  was  affected  by  it.  It  seems  as  though  a  desolation  had  been 
wrought  among  my  friends,  in  my  Native  land,  which  made  it  appear  a 
dreary  waste,  particularly  on  hearing  of  the  death  of  Philetus.  For  you 
know  how  intimate  we  were  in  the  days  of  our  childhood  and  youth — and 
how  dearly  we  loved  each  other  and  how  unbroken  was  our  companion- 
ship till  Ibid  him  adieu  and  sailed  for  this  eastern  world.  During  my 
visit  to  my  Native  land  our  fellowship  was  sweet  and  heavenly,  tinged  at 
the  same  time  with  a  shade  of  sadness  as  we  could  not  keep  it  from  our 
minds  that  we  were  soon  to  part  to  meet  no  more  in  this  world.  I  recol- 
lect our  last  meeting  I  went  down  and  visited  him  and  his  dear  family 
at  Owego,  and  he  came  with  his  waggon  and  brought  me  on  my  way  back 
as  far  as  Pitcher.  We  spent  the  night  there  together,  and  in  the  morning 
when  we  had  bowed  down  and  prayed  together  for  the  last  time,  in  com- 
pany with  good  old  Father  Wakely.  Mrs.  Lawton  and  other  old  friends — 
the  moment  arrived  when  we  were  to  say  farewell.  My  last  words  to  him 
were,  "If  you  should  every  pass  through  Fulton,  brother  Peck,  you  will 
find  two  little  creatures  there  who  call  me  Father."  He  clasped  me 
around  the  neck,  and  our  tears  mingled  and  ran  down  together,  and  he 
passed  away  and  I  saw  him  no  more.  And  now  he  is  dead. 

Before  I  sailed  from  Boston  I  received  a  letter  from  him  in  which  he 
says,  "After  parting  with  you  at  Pitcher  I  had  a  sad  ride.  I  could  no 
longer  restrain  my  tears,  and  they  ceased  not  that  day.  *Paroxism's  of 
inexpressible  sadness  and  tears  would  come  over  me  in  spite  of  all  my 
efforts  to  resist.  I  hurried  on  home,  calling  on  no  one,  and  arrived  in  the 
evening.  Nancy  soon  learned  my  feelings  and  participating  in  them,  we 
wept  together,  retired  to  rest  and  wept  still,  and  only  by  the  active  en- 
gagements of  life  the  next  day  was  I  enabled  to  obtain  the  mastery  over  my 
emotions  of  sadness.  That  you  had  a  large  place  in  my  heart,  I  well 
knew;  but  that  it  would  cost  me  so  much  to  part  I  did  not  expect  ***»***»* 
To  this  time  the  thought  that  I  shall  see  your  face  no  more  on  earth  fills 
me  with  sadness,  but  I  cannot  help  it.  Nevertheless  I  rejoice  in  it  because 
I  believe  it  is  the  will  of  God.***  When  we  parted  at  Pitcher  I  could 


8  HISTORY   OF  NEW    WOODSTOCK. 

not  speak  All  you  desire  of  me  on  behalf  of  your  boys,  or  any  service  I 
can  render  shall  be  done  with  pleasure.  Tell  them  that  their  father's 
friend,  P.  B  Peck  will  be  their  friend  Willard  may  thus  remember  me." 
No— those  boys  will  not  remember  you,  my  Brother  — it  is  too  late. 
What  they  have  lost  they  know  not  now— God  grant  that  they  never  know. 
We  know  what  we  have  lost,  and  the  church  of  which  he  was  pastor  know 
their  loss,  and  his  dear  family  will  feel  his  loss  more  and  more.  I  knew 
Brother  Peck  well.  I  have  felt  the  beatings  of  that  great  noble  heart, 
and  I  have  admired  among  other  traits  of  his  maganimous  character,  an 
integrity  the  most  unyielding,  a  grasping  of  the  right  and  an  adherance 
to  it  the  most  unflinching  amidst  opposition  the  most  fearful.  A  fidelity 
and  an  efficiency  in  the  discharge  of  pastoral  duties  seldom  equalled,  a 
kindness  and  affection  and  wisdom  as  Husband  and  Father,  and  a  purity 
and  constancy  of  friendship  equalled  only  by  "that  above."  And  I  feel 
that  I  have  a  right  to  mourn  with  others  his  loss  For  perhaps  since  the 
days  of  David  and  Jonathan  no  two  men  have  entertained  for  each  other  a 
stronger  or  more  disinterested  friendship  than  Brother  Peck  and  myself. 
Farewell,  my  Brother, — Rest  In  Peace. 

I  recollect  that  when  I  was  at  home  also  I  experienced  much  satisfac- 
tion in  visiting  with  his  lamented  mother,  Mrs.  Peck.  More  than  any  other 
person  in  my  Native  land,  she  reminded  me  of  my  own  dear  Mother.  I 
recollect  while  sitting  by  Mrs  Peck's  side  one  day  I  found  her  gazing 
steadily  into  my  face.  After  a  moment  she  said,  with  a  good  deal  of  an- 
imation. "Why  Elisha,  how  fresh  you  bring  the  memory  of  your  Mother  to 
my  mind."  She  is  gone  to  the  grave  full  of  years. 

Linus  I  knew  as  a  boy.  He  was  during  one  season  a  school-boy  of 
mine,  and  I  marked  him  as  a  lad  of  bright  promise  and  predicted  for  him 
in  future  life  a  glorious  career.  And  from  what  I  hear  of  his  character 
and  learned  of  his  position  while  at  home,  I  perceived  that  the  promise  of 
his  childhood  had  been  verified.  He  too  is  gone,  and  they  all  sleep  in  one 
grave.  Let  them  sleep.  We  shall  go  to  them  but  they  will  not  return  to 
us.  The  companions  of  my  childhood  and  youth  are  passing  away— the 
greater  part  of  my  family  lie  on  these  heathen  shores  and  the  two  living 
ones  far  away  I  am  never  to  see.  What  remains  to  me  now  but  to  fulfill 
the  ministry.  I  have  received  with  fidelity  and  patience  giving  glory  to 
God. 

Love  to  Mrs.  Fiske  and  family,  Eld.  Putnam  and  family,  and  to  all 
dear  friends  in  New  Woodstock. 

Your  affec.  Son  in  the  gospel, 

E.  L.  Abbott. 
[•Mr  Abbott's  spelling  ] 


HISTORY  of  NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


Mr.  Abbott  was  appointed  missionary  to  Burmah  by  the  Baptist  Board 
in  1835,  and  continued  his  labors  with  marked  success  for  nineteen  years. 
With  health  broken  he  then  came  home  and  was  soon  called  to  his  rest. 

Mr.  Abbott's  monument  was  erected   by    E.  C.  and  E.    D.   Litchfield, 
sons  of  Elisha  Litchfield  of  Cazenovia.     The  inscription  is  as  follows: 
Rev.  Elisha  Litchfield  Abbott,  Missionary  to  Burmah. 
Died  Dec   3,  1854  aged  45. 
"His  works  do  follow  him." 


New  Woodstock. 


O  village  white  among  the  hills, 

No  poet  sings  thy  praise  ; 
And  those  possessed  by  tourist's  zest 

Choose  not  thy  quiet  ways. 
But  yet  thy  name  from  North  to  South, 

From  sea  to  sea  has  blown  ; 
Thy  children  leal  affection  feel, 

And  make  their  birthplace  known. 

Where  arched  the  sky  above  them  first , 

Seems  heaven's  vault  most  blue  ; 
No  hills  so  green  have  they  e'er  seen, 

No  friends  so  staunch  and  true. 
"The  thoughts  of  youth" — those  "long,  long  thoughts, 

Of  things  seen  and  unseen  ; 
Had  here  their  source,  and  all  life's  course 

Has  felt  the  impress  keen. 

And  so  the  gray-haired  pilgrims  come 

To  muse  where  life  began. 
As  in  a  dream,  the  houses  seem 

I«ess  spacious  in  their  plan; 
The  streets  stretch  not  so  long  nor  wide 

As  to  their  childish  eyes  ; 
The  steeple  high  that  touched  the  sky 

Wears  now  a  different  guise. 

Yet  still  the  same,  and  doubly  dear 

For  all  the  years  between  ; 
And  all  the  stress  of  thoughts  that  press 

At  each  remembered  scene. 
But  as  the  old-time  ways  they  tread, 

Themselves  they  aliens  own  ; 
The  silent  stare,  the  curious  air 

Stamp  them  as  strangers  lone. 

Then  to  the  graveyard  old  they  turn, 
And  here  their  friends  they  find. 
On  headstones  white— most  saddening  sight , 


IO  HISTORY    OF    NK\V    \VOOIJSTOCK. 


The  cherished  names  are  lined. 
For  while  the  living  fail  to  gain 

In  nuinl'«rs  year  by  year, 
The  dead  who  lie  at  rest  hard  by 

A  mighty  host  appear. 

()  village  white  among  the  hills, 

How  peaceful  dost  thott  seem  ! 
Yet  all  the  smarts  that  torture  hearts 

Are  found  in  thee,  I  deem  ; 
The  passions  which  can  make  or  mar 

On  thine  arena  meet  ; 
No  space  confined  can  cramp  the  mind, 

Or  make  life  incomplete. 

Within  the  circle  of  thy  hills 

Grim  tragedy  has  walked  ; 
And  left  and  right  has  spread  the  blight 

Where  scathing  sin  has  stalked. 
Romance  has  bloomed,  and  love  has  smiled, 

Stern  toil  has  borne  its  part, 
And  righteousness  with  power  to  bless 

Has  reigned  in  many  a  heart. 

Within  thy  midst,  through  all  the  years, 

The  Church  of  God  has  stood, 
The  seal  and  sign  of  things  divine, — 

A  source  of  untold  good. 
And  o'er  the  coffined  forms  that  crowd 

Beneath  the  graveyard  mold, 
Swelled  sweet  and  strong  the  triumph  song 

That  resurrection  told. 

0  village  white  among  the  hills, 

May  blessings  rest  on  thee  ! 

1  here  proclaim  how  much  thy  name 

Has  meant  to  mine  and  me. 
O  may  thy  children  far  and  near 

Fresh  honors  on  thee  shed  ; 
1'nsullied  wear  the  names  they  bear, 

While  thon  dost  guard  their  dead. 

SARA  J.  I'XDKRWOOIJ. 
Syracuse,  X.  Y..  January  21.  1001. 


Silhouettes  copied  by  W.  C.  Smith 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  David  Smith 
Son,  Ort in  S.  Smith  Grandson,  William  C.  Smith 


History  of  New  Woodstock. 


The  village  of  New  Woodstock,  in  the  first  election  district  of  the  town 
of  Cazenovia,  is  1,350  feet  above  sea  level;  Cazenovia  village,  six  miles 
north,  being  too  feet  lower,  and  DeRuyter,  seven  miles  south,  being  also 
lower.  A  double  row  of  maple  trees,  set  out  by  Lathrop  Hendryx,  many 
years  ago,  extends  the  entire  length  of  Albany,  the  principal  business 
street.  Standing  at  the  eastern  end,  looking  west,  the  view  is  remarkable 
for  its  quiet,  peaceful  beauty,  though  time  and  the  woodman's  axe  have 
wrought  sad  havoc.  Nestled  among  the  hills,  one  seldom  sees  a  village 
numbering  less  than  three  hundred  inhabitants  that  has  so  few  dilapidated 
buildings,  and  has  such  an  appearance  of  general  prosperity.  Situated  in 
a  rich  farming  and  dairy  country,  the  hillsides  are  dotted  with  farm  build- 
ings where  once  dense  forests  stood,  and  the  early  settlers'  only  guides 
were  the  Indian  trails  or  roads  marked  by  blazed  trees. 

The  first  settlers  of  New  Woodstock  were  David  Smith  and  Charleville 
Webber.  They  are  reported  (Mrs.  Hammond's  History  of  Madison  county) 
to  have  occupied  tli2  shanty  at  the  foot  of  Cazenovia  lake  before  Mr.  Linck- 
laen's  party  came.  They  staked  out  lots  and  settled  near  New  Woodstock 
in  1794.  No  farther  record  can  be  found  of  Charleville  Webber,  than  he 
was  buried  in  the  New  Woodstock  cemetery  in  1811.  (See  engraving.) 

David  Smith  was  born  in  1771  and  came  with  his  parents  when  four- 
teen from  Brimfield,  Mass.,  to  Clinton,  N.  Y.  He  was  one  of  thirteen 
children.  His  brothers  were,  James,  John,  Jonathan,  Marshall,  Smilev, 
Samuel  Joseph,  Harry  and  William,  and  sisters.  Sally,  (Moffett)  Polly, 
(Hale)  and  Betsey  (Morris).  Mr.  Smith  took  up  150  acres  a  mile  south- 
east of  New  Woodstock.  He  soon  after  sold  50  acres,  now  owned  by  C.  A. 

Lamb,  to  Edward  Curtis  father  of  Samuel,  Edward,  Juu ,  Betsey,  (Ta- 

ber)  Esther,  (Bacon)  and  Fanny  Curtis.  Mr.  Smith  married  in  1795  Betsey 
Merrick.  Frank  Hunt's  farmhouse  stands  where  their  home  was  built, 
the  bar  being  in  the  basement  front.  It  was  a  convenient  location  for  a 
tavern,  as  John  I,incklaen,  on  account  of  his  vast  timber  interests,  and  for 
the  benefit  of  the  settlers,  early  laid  out  two  roads.  The  east  one  from  Caze- 
novia passing  south  directly  by  David  Smith's,  over  Crumb  Hill  to  North 


12  HISTORY   OF   NK\V    WOODSTOCK. 

Pitcher  was  called  "The  Old  Joe  road,"  after  Joseph  Messenger,  who  was 
employed  to  do  the  work.  The  ten  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Smith  were, 
Melinda,  married  Arcenal  Webber,  Erastus,  Eliza,  David,  Sophrona, 
Jonathan,  Charlotte,  married  Asa  Merrill,  Jerman,  Artemas  and  Orrin. 

A  year  or  two  after  David  located  near  New  Woodstock,  his  brother, 
Jonathan,  took  up  150  acres,  which  included  all  that  part  of  the  village  ly- 
ing south  of  what  was  afterward  the  Hamilton  and  Skaneateles  turnpike. 
He  built  a  tavern,  now  called  the  Bell  house,  at  the  western  end  of  his 
land  where  he  was  landlord  many  years.  He  was  married  three  times  and 
had  no  children.  He  died  in  Ohio.  The  brothers  were  twins  and  so 
strongly  resembled  each  other  that  David's  children,  and  even  "Aunt 
Spike,"  as  David's  wife  was  sometimes  called  because  of  her  high  temper, 
thought  Jonathan  was  David.  The  tavern  built  by  David,  no  longer  used 
as  a  tavern,  was  burned  in  1854  when  Samuel  Scott  was  the  owner,  and 
was  re-built  by  him.  Luther  Hunt,  who  came  here  about  sixty-five  years 
ago,  afterward  purchased  it,  and  his  son,  Frank  L.,  the  present  road  com- 
missioner, is  now  the  owner  and  occupant.  Luther's  brothers,  Andrew  and 
Lyman  were  also  residents  here  awhile. 

About  1818  David  Smith  built  the  present  hotel  and  occupied  it  until 
1831,  when  it  passed  into  the  hands  of  his  son,  Erastus,  and  son-in-law,  Asa 
Merrill,  who  was  also  one  of  the  early  stage  drivers.  After  two  years, 
Jonathan  and  Jerman  Smith  took  the  hotel,  and  were  succeeded  in  turn 
by  Artemas  and  Orriu,  the  latter  continuing  proprietor  after  Artemas' 
death  until  1865,  when  he  sold  to  John  Blakeslee  and  Abram  Burden. 

David  Smith's  last  home  was  on  the  north  side  of  Albany  street,  on 
land  purchased  of  John  Savage.  He  died  in  1844,  his  wife  in  1846.  The 
parents  and  their  ten  children,  except  David,  are  buried  in  the  New 
Woodstock  cemetery.  Their  son,  Jonathan,  a  prominent  business  man  in 
New  Woodstock  many  years,  became  the  owner  of  their  home.  He  died 
in  1862.  His  son,  Morillo  O.,  the  only  descendant  of  David  Smith  in  New 
Woodstock,  now  occupies  the  house.  Mr.  Smith  has  held  the  town  offices 
of  constable,  collector,  and  road  commissioner,  and  is  now  gate  tender  of 
Tioughnioga  lake.  He  is  also  sexton  of  the  New  Woodstock  cemetery  and 
Baptist  church. 

Orrin,  the  youngest  child  of  David  Smith,  married  Sarah  Matthews. 
After  selling  the  hotel,  he  bought  a  house  on  Mill  street,  one  of  three  built 
by  Robert  Jenkins,  the  other  two  being  the  old  Peck-Rice  house,  now 
owned  by  F.  C.  Covil,  and  the  one  known  as  the  Lemuel  Bowers  house. 
Mr.  Smith's  daughter  Ida,  died  a  few  years  since.  His  son,  William  C., 
was  born  in  New  Woodstock  in  1859.  Attended  public  and  private  school 
in  that  village  and  later  at  Cax.enovia  Seminary.  He  went  to  Philadelphia 
in  1879.  Entered  the  brokerage  of  his  uncle,  Ezra  W.  Matthews.  Was  in 
his  employ  four  years.  •  His  uncle  retiring  from  business  he  formed  a 


Photo  by  I.  L.  R.  Minor 

David  Smith's  Hotel,  Corbin  &  Mansfield,  Proprietors 


.  Photo  bv  I.  L.  R.  Minor 


M.  R.  Burdick's  Store  and  Hall 


HISTORY  OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  13 

partnership  with  Horace  H.  Lee  which  continued  five  years.  In  1890  he 
became  a  member  of  the  Philadelphia  Stock  Exchange  continuing  bus- 
iness in  his  own  name.  He  married  in  June,  1889,  jLaura  Virginia  Jackson, 
daughter  of  the  late  Hon.  Washington  J.  Jackson,  of  Philadelphia.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Union  League  of  Philadelphia,  Overbrook  Golf  Club, 
Overbrook  Club  and  Philadelphia  Cycle  and  Field  Club. 

David  Smith,  the  pioneer,  had  a  brother,  John,  who  lived  in  Chitten- 
ango,  and  his  half  brother,  William,  was  a  distiller  and  farmer  in  New 
Woodstock,  and  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  1812.  He  married  Sally  Dean 
Pollard.  His  death  occurred  in  1844. 

Blakeslee  and  Burden  sold  the  hotel  in  1866  to  Orville  Wells  and 
Gideon  Estes  and  re-purchased  it  in  1867.  Mr.  Burden  died  in  1872,  and 
in  1873  Mr.  Blakeslee  sold  to  Chauucey  Cook,  son  of  Conrad  Cook.  The 
latter  is  remembered  as  an  eccentric  man,  and  as  sexton  of  the  Baptist 
church.  Mr.  Cook  sold  the  hotel  to  Hinman,  of  Syracuse,  who  rented  it 
to  Tinker  and  Wilcox.  John  and  Lewis  Burden  next  became  proprietors, 
and  sold  to  Samuel  C.  Shapley,  in  1888,  who  remained  until  1899,  when  he 
sold  to  Corbin  and  Mansfield,  the  present  successful  proprietors. 

One  of  the  first  pioneers,  in  1793, was  Wm.  Sims,  of  Scotch  origin,  born 
in  1770,  who  came  from  Andover,  Conn.  He  located  near  Constine  Bridge, 
paying  John  Lincklaen  $  1.50  per  acre  for  land  which  was  nearly  all  forest 
and  abounded  with  deer  and  bears.  Wolves,  also,  were  objectionably  nu- 
merous. He  built  a  log  house,  married  Deborah  Weaver,  of  Pownall,  Vt., 
the  farm  always  remaining  their  home.  Their  children  were  James,  Louisa 
Coley,  Phebe,  who  married  J.  J.  H.  Clark,  historian  of  Onondaga  county, 
and  John.  The  family  attended  services  at  New  Woodstock  held  in  the 
"Barn  Meetinghouse"  built  in  1804,  which  outwardly  resembled  a  barn. 
The  interior  is  described  as  having  a  ground  floor  and  convenient  seats. 
An  upper  room  had  a  large,  square  hole  in  the  floor  through  which  those 
in  the  primitive  gallery  could  see  preacher  and  people.  In  the  early  days 
premuims  were  offered  for  the  best  piece  of  home-manufactured  full-cloth. 
Mrs.  Sims  took  the  premium  and  her  pastor,  Eld.  Peck,  had  the  first  suit 
cut  from  the  cloth.  Mrs.  Sims  died  in  1859.  Mr.  Sims  in  1864,  aged  ninety- 
five.  His  son,  James,  born  July,  1802,  formerly  a  teacher  and  farmer,  now 
resides  in  Ca/.enovia,  and  is  the  oldest  life-long  inhabitant  of  the  town. 
When  a  young  man,  he  frequently  made  trips  to  Albany,  one  hundred 
miles  distant,  which  was  then  the  market  for  farm  produce,  the  round  trip 
requiring  eight  or  nine  days.  His  memory  is  good  and  in  a  recent  inter- 
view, referring  to  church  services  at  New  Woodstock,  he  said:  "  Baptismal 
occasions  were  indeed  spectacular.  The  font  was  deep  water  in  a  small 
brook  made  deep  for  such  occasions.  It  was  about  eighty  rods  from  the- 
meeting  house.  In  going  there  the  people  walked  two  by  two  in  the  mid- 


14  HISTORY  OF    NK\V    \VOODSTOCK. 

die  of  the  road,  as  there  were  no  sidewalks  ;  Elder  Peck  at  the  head,  sing- 
ing Watts'  hymns  to  the  old  fashioned  fugue  tunes." 

John,  the  youngest  child  of  Win.  Sims,  remained  on  the  farm  some 
years.  He  then  went  to  Baldwinsville  with  his  wife  and  three  children, 
where  he  and  his  wife  died.  Their  son,  W.  Frank  Sims,  returned  to  his 
native  town  about  1873  and  became  the  first  station  agent  on  the  railroad. 
After  a  few  years  he  resigned  his  position  and  built  a  flour  and  feed  store 
near  the  depot,  which  was  burned  July,  1896.  He  then  sold  the  site  to 
Charles  Boyd,  and  now  lives  in  Syracuse.  His  two  sisters  are  residents  of 
Boston. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Smith  came  in  1801  from  Plymouth,  Mass.  Their 
farm,  southeast  of  New  Woodstock  was  afterward  divided  between  their 
two  sons,  and  is  now  owned  by  George  Slocum,  and  by  Mrs.  George  Mof. 
fett.  Their  children  were  Clarissa,  married  Asaph  Smith,  Moses  and 
James.  Moses  married  Ann.  daughter  of  Nathan  Hendryx.  She  is  now 
eighty-five  years  of  age,  and  resides  with  her  daughter,  Martha,  wife  of  Dr. 
A.  D.  Smith.  Her  other  daughters  are  Mary,  (Webber)  (Smith)  and 
Hattie,  wife  of  Israel  Brown,  who  lives  in  Groton,  N.  Y.  Some  time  after 
the  death  of  Moses  Smith,  his  widow  married  Joseph  Hatch.  It  is  related 
that  SamuelSmith,  in  the  pioneer  days,  was  often  called  upon  to  bleed  his 
neighbors  and  his  wife  Patty  to  blister  them.  Isaac  Holmes  in  the  same 
neighborhood  would  act  as  dentist. 

James  Smith  married  Charlotte,  daughter  of  Gilbert  and  Judith  Rice 
Jenkins.  They  lived  in  the  old  home  several  years  ,but  spent  the  last  years 
of  their  lives  in  New  Woodstock.  Their  children  are  Henry  B.,  of  Syra- 
cuse, Austin,  of  Littleton,  N.  H.,  and  Lottie,  of  New  Woodstock. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Smith  in  1803  adopted  Ralph  Knight,  born  De- 
cember 18,  1796,  said  to  be  the  oldest  white  male  child  born  in  the  town. 
His  parents  were  Noel  and  Martha  Knight.  He  was  the  second  of  seven 
children.  His  birthplace  was  on  the  Sheds  Corners  road  and  he  was  the 
only  one  of  the  family  remaining  in  New  Woodstock  until  his  death  in 
1872.  He  married  in  1823  Olive  Ackley.  They  had  six  children.  Two 
died  in  infancy.  Charles  was  a  soldier  in  the  civil  war,  in  the  ii4th  regi- 
ment. He  was  detailed  in  1863  as  acting  hospital  steward  with  a  regiment 
of  U.  S.  C.  I.  and  sent  to  Texas  where  died  of  congestion  of  the  lungs  after 
a  brief  illness  at  Matagorda  Island.  His  son,  J.  E.  Knight,  is  an  engraver 
in  Syracuse. 

James  was  an  expert  penman,  and  was  a  bookkeeper  in  New  Wood- 
stock several  years,  afterward  going  to  Syracuse.  He  was  twice  married. 
The  daughters  of  the  first  marriage  were  Harriet,  whodiedin  early  woman- 
hood, and  Gertrude,  wife  of  Robert  Benedict  of  Delphi.  Mr.  Knight's 
second  wife  and  a  sou  and  daughter  are  living  in  Syracuse;  another  son  in 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm.  Sims 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ralph  Knight 


HISTORY    OF   NEW   WOODSTOCK.  15 


Rochester.  Harriet  married  Nelson  Estes.  They  had  one  son,  James,  now 
of  California.  Ralph  married  Cynthia  Burdick,  of  DeRuyter,  and  moved 
to  Syracuse,  where  their  children  now  reside. 

Samuel  Tyler,  another  pioneer,  came  to  New  Woodstock  in  1793.  He 
was  a  constituent  member  of  the  Baptist  church.  His  daughter  married 
the  pioneer  Edward  Curtis.  His  farm  was  located  south  of  L.  H.  Slocum's 
and  now  belongs  to  Francis  Morgan.  The  L,.  H.  Slocum  farm  was  owned 
by  Jonathan  Ferry  prior  to  1812.  His  son,  Monroe  Ferry,  of  Holley,  N. 
Y.,  was  born  there.  S.  V.  R.  Freeborn  afterward  owned  it  and  added  two 
small  farms  previously  owned  by  Mr.  Allard  and  John  Martin.  Mr. 
Martin  purchased  50  acres  of  John  Lincklaen  in  1814.  He  was  a  tanner 
by  trade.  He  had  seven  sons  and  three  daughters.  Emeline  Cruttenden, 
born  in  the  log  house,  was  the  first  of  the  children  born  in  New  Woodstock, 
her  birthday  occurring  in  June,  1815,  the  same  day  the  frame  of  the  Bap- 
tist church  was  raised.  Her  sister,  Elvira,  married  John  Stanton,  and 
Huldah  married  his  nephew,  Schuyler  Stanton. 

Levi  Burgess,  half  brother  of  Jonathan  Shed,  came  in  1800.  He  had 
ten  children.  His  son,  Celim,  kept  the  farm,  and  at  his  death  Alonzo 
Morse  purchased  it.  Harrison  Burgess,  a  teacher  and  school  commissioner, 
lived  in  Erieville  ;  Andrew,  a  blacksmith,  in  New  Woodstock,  then  in 
Erieville.  Frank  died  in  New  Woodstock  in  the  Jonathan  Shed  house. 
Minerva  married  James  Randall.  Their  daughter,  Ruth  Wood,  resides  in 
New  Woodstock.  Ruth,  daughter  of  Levi  Burgess,  married  John  Cadogan, 
jon  of  Abram  Cadogan,  who  moved  here  prior  to  1810,  and  lived  in  what  is 
now  called  the  Calkins  neighborhood.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Cadogan  first 
lived  on  the  Sheds  Corners  road.  Over  fifty  years  ago  they  moved  the 
house  formerly  owned  by  Joseph  Clark  from  the  site  of  Mrs.  Richmond's 
home  to  its  present  location  where  George  Barber  lives.  They  had  5 
sons  and  4  daughters.  Almira  Partridge  and  Ruth  Elliott  live  in  Eden,  N.  Y. 
Janet  married  Jonathan  Smith  and  for  her  second  husband,  Putnam  Damon. 
She  resided  here  until  her  death  in  February,  1901.  Lucus  Cadogan  lives 
in  Michigan,  Walter  in  Chicago,  John  in  Erieville.  Frank  died  in  Eaton 
and  is  buried  in  New  Woodstock.  His  widow  married  Theodore  Tucker. 
Auuis,  daughter  of  Abram  Cadogan,  the  pioneer,  married  Ansel  Stowell 
and  was  the  mother  of  eight  children.  Charlotte  Corbin,  Henry,  Frank 
and  Fred  are  those  who  resided  in  New  Woodstock.  Betsey,  another 
daughter  of  Abram  Cadogan,  married  Sylvester  Burdin.  They  had  fifteen 
children,  George,  Henry,  Ira,  Abram  and  John  among  the  number.  Their 
early  home  was  in  Sheds  Corners. 

Benjamin  Hatch  and  Thomas  Ackley,  from  Winfield,  N.  Y.,  settled  in 
Nelson  on  the  Cazenovia  town  line  early  in  the  century.  Mr.  Hatch's 
children  were  Jerusha  Wells,  Elnathau,  Joseph  L.,  father  of  Clark  W.,  and 


HISTORY   OK    NK\V  WOODSTOCK. 


IdaDoremus.  Joseph  lived  on  his  father's  farm,  also  in  New  Woodstock  and 
in  Ca/.enovia.  Silence  Freeborn,  now  eighty-five,  the  only  member  of  the 
family  living,  resides  with  her  son,  W.  H.  Freeborn.  Philetta  and  Ann 
married  Jeremy  Tucker  ;  Mary  married  James  Brown,  Benjamin  F.  married 
Nellie  Leary  in  1846  and  lived  where  Henry  Gorton  does  now.  In  1866 
they  removed  to  Cuba,  N.  Y.,  Mr.  Hatch  dyingthesame  year.  Theirson, 
Alfred  D.  Hatch,  is  a  prominent  business  man  in  that  place.  He  married 
Alice  M.  Lyon.  They  have  one  daughter,  Bertha  Lillian. 

The  youngest  son  of  the  pioneer,  Benjamin  Hatch,  went  west  and  was 
found  dead  under  mysterious  circumstances  several  years  ago. 

The  Hamilton  and  Skaneateles  turnpike,  laid  out  in  1806  and  built  in 
181 1,  started  at  Plainfield  and  passed  through  Brookfield,  Hamilton,  Eaton, 
Erieyille,  New  Woodstock  and  other  places  west  until  it  reached  Skan- 
eateles.   A  toll  gate  was  on  Mr.  Hatch's  farm  and  he  was  the  first  keeper. 
Later  it  was  moved  to  Edward  Damon's  farm,  Arcenal  Webber  keeping  it. 
It  was  moved  once  more  to  the  upper  end  of  H.  S.  Gorton's  farm  and  \u.s 
kept  by  Henry  P.  Gifford.    TheGifford  family  were  originally  from  Rhode 
Island.     Henry  Gifford,  Jun.,  married  Jane  Webber.    Mr.  Gifford's  secor 
wife  was  Mrs.  Perry  Stevens,  whose  maiden  name  was  LHchfield.     H 
daughter,  Catherine,  married  Lytnan  Larrabee,  a  school  teacher  and  after- 
ward a  carriage-maker  in  New  Woodstock.     Mr.  Larrabee,  ir    "ompauy 
with  his  brother-in-law,  Jared  Hubbard  and  family,  came  form  Westmore- 
land, N.  Y.,  in   1842.     Mr.  Larrabee  moved  to  Cinciunatus  in  1861.  .  Th 
family  now  reside  in  Bingha'mton.     His  son,  Chester,  carries  on  an  exteii 
sive  business  in  carriage  manufacture.     The  last  keeper  of  the  toll  gati 
was  Mr.  Fisher,  an  Englishman.     His  son,  William,  is  now  a  business  ma 
in  Utica,  N.  Y. 

Thomas  Ackley  located  in  the  neighborhood  with  his  brother-in-la-\\ 
Benjamin  Hatch,  on  a  farm  since  owned  for  a  number  of  years  by  John 
Dixon.  Their  children  were,  Thomas,  Walter,  Ann,  (Wellington)  Ansel, 
Abigail,  (Durfee)  Alice,  (Tucker)  William  and  Gilbert.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Ackley's  last  years  were  spent  with  their  daughter,  Alice,  in  the  house 
built  by  Arcenal  Webber,  between  the  H.  and  S.  turnpike  and  the  Sheds 
Corners  road.  Mr.  Ackley  was  totally  blind  eighteen  years.  He  died  at 
the  age  of  eighty-three.  Their  son,  Walter,  lived  on  the  old  farm  until 
1879.  He  then  bought  a  home  on  Bank  street  in  New  Woodstock,  where 
they  lived  with  their  daughter,  Lewellyn  Byer,  the  only  one  of  their  five 
children  now  in  this  place.  Mrs.  Sanford  is  in  Iowa,  Mrs.  C.  J.  Wells,  in 
Erieville,  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Mowry  and  Gilbert  Ackley  in  Syracuse.  Gilbert 
Ackley  married  B.  J.  Lowrie's  daughter,  Florence,  and  owned  and  occupied 
the  John  Post  farm  at  Union  a  number  of  years  before  going  to  Syracuse. 

James  Leary  and  his  wife,  Semira  Webber,  lived  on  the  south  side  of 


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the  turnpike  west  of  the  road  passing  by  L.  H.  Slocum's.  Mr.  Leary  was 
a  captain  in  the  war  of  i8r2.  They  had  five  children,  three  of  whom  died 
when  young.  Captain  Leary  died  in  1834,  aged  forty-four.  His  wife  sur- 
vived him  twenty-five  years.  Their  daughter,  Polly,  married  Andrew 
Tucker,  who  died  in  1859.  Georgiana  Tucker,  their  daughter,  married 
Walter  Rew,  of  Friendship,  N.  Y.,  and  has  one  son,  Lynn  Andrew.  Mrs. 
Tucker  afterward  married  E/.ra  Webster,  of  Friendship.  She  died  at  the 
age  of  seventy  and  was  brought  to  New  Woodstock  for  burial.  Nellie 
Leary,  her  sister,  married  B.  F.  Hatch.  [See  Hatch  sketch.] 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Wightman  settled  in  Nelson,  in  the  early  part 
of  the  past  century.  Their  six  children  were  born  on  the  farm  where  their 
daughter,  Mrs.  Esther  Salisbury  still  resides.  Three  sons,  Benjamin, 
George  and  Andrew,  were  closely  identified  with  New  Woodstock.  Ben- 
jamin built  the  G.  H.  Moffett  house,  the  S.  S.  Hayes  shoe  store  on  Mill 
street,  the  hardware  store  on  Albany  street,  near  the  Esq.  Lathrop  store. 
He  owned  the  house  built  by  Stephen  Collins  about  1830.  The  fire  which 
occurred  in  October,  1890,  destroyed  the  Lathrop  store,  and  all  the  Wight- 
man property  except  the  shoe  store.  Esq.  Lathrop's  store  was  occupied 
at  the  time  by  the  merchant,  P.  E.  Jaquith,  and  the  flour  and  feed  store  of 
E.  W.  Gunn.  The  hardware  stock  was  owned  by  Jonas  Reeve  of  Erieville. 
He  succeeded  R.  J.  Sunderlin,  of  Scotch  descent,  who  came  from  Chitten- 
ango  in  1865.  J.  J.  Tucker  became  his  partner  in  1867.  After  the  fire, 
Henry  D.  Ryder  became  the  hardware  merchant.  William  S.  Huntley  is 
the  present  owner. 

George  Wightman  was  a  cabinet  maker  and  carpenter.  In  1855  he 
bought  the  wool  carding  and  oil  mill  on  Limestone  creek,  north  of  the 
village,  first  owned  by  Luther  Holmes,  afterward  by  Jeremiah  Kellogg. 
Isaac  Schinck's  sawmill,  in  the  early  days  was  east  of  the  mill.  Mr. 
Wightman  sold  to  Hart  and  Van  Vechton,  and  the  mill  was  burned  in 
1864.  Mr.  Wightman  repurchased  and  rebuilt  it  in  1871.  It  was  again 
burned  and  rebuilt  in  1872.  Later  it  was  owned  by  W.  H.  Gardner.  (See 
Gardner  sketch.)  The  building  on  the  south  side  of  Albany  St.,  now  own- 
ed by  M.  R.  Burdick,  was  built  by  Mr.  Wightman  in  1855,  Seneca  Bowers 
who  came  from  Troy,  being  the  architect.  When  first  built,  it  was  a  story 
higher,  and  was  considered  a  fine  building.  The  New  Woodstock  Glove 
Co.  owned  it  from  1869  to  1874.  The  house  now  owned  by  Dewitt  Palmer, 
where  Theodore  and  J.  J.  Morse  lived,  was  also  built  by  Mr.  Wightman. 
Andrew  Wightman,  a  house  and  carriage  painter,  lived  in  New  Wroodstock. 
He  died  in  1900.  His  wife  was  Margaret  Bowers.  Her  two  younger  sons 
live  with  her  in  New  Woodstock,  the  daughter,  Mrs.  Addie  Sherman,  in 
Rippleton,  and  a  son  Devillo,  west. 

Thomas,  Solomon,  William  and  Ebenezer  Merrick,  spelled  also  Myrick, 
and  their  wives  were  early  settlers.  Like  many  other  pioneer  families, 


1 8  HISTORY    OK    NKW    WOODSTOCK. 


none  of  the  name  now  reside  here.  Thomas'  daughter  Betsey  married 
David  Smith,  Sally  married  Dr.  Mann  of  Union,  whose  children  were  Jane, 
wife  of  the  late  Samuel  Bliss,  and  Darwin,  father  of  Rev.  Newton  Maun, 
and  his  sisters  Helen  and  Marcia,  who  live  at  Cazenovia. 

Ashbel  Webster  bought  the  farm  now  known  as  Benoni  Barrett's  of 
Mr.  Worden.  He  had  eleven  children,  Jesse,  Plumley,  Ashbel  Jr.,  Hannah 
(Tucker,)  Jason,  Daniel,  Jared,  George,  Mercy  (Powers,)  Israel  and  EH/.a. 
Israel  married  Arvilla,  sister  of  John  Post,  bought  his  father's  farm,  after- 
wards selling  it  to  Daniel.  Other  owners  of  the  farm  have  been  Eleazer 
Seymour  and  R.  R.  Churchward.  Ashbel  Webster,  Jr.,  married  Avis  Bur- 
ton, settling  east  of  the  Thurber  farm.  They  had  two  sons  and  three 
daughters.  Eliza  Webster,  born  1812,  married  Henry  Smith  in  1833,  who 
died  several  years  ago.  The}- had  eleven  children,  six  now  living,  five 
residents  of  this  state.  Richard  resides  in  Owasso,  Michigan.  Mrs. 
Smith  is  with  her  daughter,  Mrs.  Ira  Kinney  of  Cuyler.  Three  children 
Ellis,  Mary  (Durfee  )  and  John,  reside  near  New  Woodstock.  Mrs.  Smith 
has  twenty-five  grandchildren,  and  sixteen  great-grandchildren.  Mr. 
Smith's  grandfather  and  his  wife's  grandfather  were  Revolutionary 
soldiers.  Mrs.  Smith's  sister  Mercy  married  Wesley  D.  Fox,  pastor  ofthe 
Methodist  church  in  New  Woodstock  in  1844.  They  had  four  children, 
their  three  daughters  all  marrying  ministers.  Mary,  with  whom  her 
mother  resides  in  Homer,  married  the  late  Rev.  M.  E-  Haskins. 

Eleazer  Seymour  and  his  wife  Achsah  Wellington  came  from  Lebanon, 
N.  Y.  Their  son  Addison  was  born  there,  Erastus  and  Silas  on  the  Benoni 
Barrett  farm.  Mr.  Seymour  afterward  sold  it  and  purchased  the  farm  of 
Luther  and  Erastus  Wellington,  where  his  son  Silas  has  lived  nearly  forty- 
eight  years.  John  Kellogg  built  the  first  farm  house,  which  was  burned 
some  years  ago.  Silas  Seymour  married  Helen  Salisbury  of  Homer. 
They  have  one  daughter,  Cora.  Erastus  Seymour  married  Sarah  Snow, 
and  lives  at  the  foot  of  Belmont  Hill,  where  James  and  Jane  Snow  once  re- 
sided. They  have  five  children.  Mr.  Seymour  carries  on  the  old  Snow 
grist  and  saw  mill  on  Belmont  Creek. 

David  Wellington,  a  pioneer  of  Nelson,  came  from  Cheshire,  New 
Hampshire,  in  1796  and  built  a  log  shanty,  the  roof  of  elm  bark,  the  floor 
of  split  logs.  He  was  the  first  Justice  of  the  town  of  Nelson,  holding  the 
office  twenty  years.  -His  two  sons,  Luther  and  Erastus,  over  sixty  years 
ago  lived  where  Silas  Seymour  now  resides.  Luther  afterward  returned 
to  Nelson.  His  son,  Gerry,  is  a  prominent  lawyer  in  Hamilton,  N.  Y. 
Erastus  Wellington  married  Ann  Ackley.  Their  son  Edward  C.,  who 
•  married  Celia  Lewis,  was  a  man  of  varied  information,  conversing  intelli- 
gently on  all  subjects.  Erastus  Wellington's  daughter,  Louisa,  married 
Austin  Jenkins.  Their  son,  William,  with  family,  resides  in  New  Wood- 
stock, owning  the  late  S.  E.  Morse  place. 


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Captain  Ezra  Jenkins  had  three  sons,  Robert,  Canfield  and  Gilbert. 
Robert  has  been  mentioned  as  a  builder.  Canfield  married  a  daughter  of 
Rev.  Joseph  Cole)-.  Gilbert  married  Judith,  a  sister  of  Israel  and  Isaac 
Rice.  Gilbert's  sons  were  Ezra,  now  of  Flint,  Mich  ,  remembered  as  a 
leader  of  the  Baptist  choir  in  New  Woodstock,  and  also  as  a  singing  school 
teacher.  Austin  married  Louisa  Wellington  and  also  remained  in  this 
vicinity.  The  daughters  of  Gilbert  Jenkins  were  Charlotte  (Smith),  Lucy 
(Robinson, )  and  Sarah  ( Nichols.)  The  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jenkins 
was  in  a  house  near  the  top  of  Belmout  Hill,  no  longer  occupied. 

John  Loomis  had  a  tannery  sixty  or  more  years  ago  on  the  corner 
opposite  the  Jenkins  house.  He  afterward  owned  the  one  at  Floodport, 
which  he  sold  to  the  Worlock  brothers.  He  owned  the  building  on  Al- 
bany street,  now  called  the  harness  shop,  using  it  as  a  shoe  shop  when 
home-made  shoes  were  in  fashion.  Ardath  Blair,  Gardner  Dodge,  Albert 
Garrett,  Win.  T.  Richmond  and  Edsel  Gordon  have  at  different  periods 
occupied  this  building  as  shoe  makers.  It  has  been  used  since  as  a  harn- 
ess shop  by  J.  H.  Knickerbocker  and  Edgar  Burdick.  The  building  was 
originally  the  dwelling  house  of  Nehemiah  Price,  and  the  birthplace  of  his 
son,  Milton  S.  Price,  who  became  a  merchant  prince  in  Syracuse. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Durfee  were  among  the  early  settlers.  Their 
home  was  on  the  Erieville  road  where  their  grandson,  William  Durfee, 
now  resides.  They  had  four  sons  and  three  daughters.  Nelson  married 
Abigail  Acklev;  Vernon  and  Susan  never  married.  Elizabeth  married 
Darius  Taber,  and  their  daughter,  Mrs.  Mary  Purrington,  resides  at  Pom- 
pey  Center. 

Asa  Durfee  married  Lydia  Thurber.  Their  children  were  William, 
Charles,  Frank,  Ann,  Mary  Smith,  and  Sarah,  who  lives  with  Mrs.  Charles 
Durfee  and  children  on  the  Erieville  road.  Frank  married  Katheriue 
Dean,  and  lives  in  Cazenovia. 

Daniel  Damon  of  western  Massachusetts  was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers 
of  the  town.  He  purchased  the  farm  where  Luther  Thompson  now  lives. 
His  son,  O.  P.  Damon,  was  born  in  1815.  He  married  Cecelia  Perkins 
Cotes.  They  lived  on  the  Erieville  road  on  the  place  which  is  now  the 
home  of  their  son,  Edward  S.  Damon. 

Edward  Holmes,  the  grandfather  of  Polly  Scott  Hunt, 'lived  in  a  log 
house  near  William  Thurber's  farm.  The  road  is  now  abandoned. 

Joseph  Holmes  came  from  Chesterfield,  New  Hampshire,  in  1801.  He 
afterward  moved  to  Shed's  Corners.  His  daughter,  Hannah,  married 
Benoni  Barrett.  Hermenia  Holmes  was  a  dressmaker  in  New  Woodstock 
for  many  years. 

Robert  Fisher  and  Isaac  Warner  came  to  New  Woodstock  about 
1803,  Warren  afterward  removing  to  DeRuyter. 

Elijah  and  Sally  Bond  came  on  horseback  from    Cheshire,  New  Hamp- 


20  HISTORY   OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK. 

shire,  to  Sangerfield,  N.  Y.,  afterward  coming  to  New  Woodstock.  Their 
home  was  near  Cook's  corner,  where,  later  their  sou,  Riley,  lived.  The 
place  is  now  owned  by  Hiram  Ackley.  Their  children  were  Riley,  Bert, 
Dexter,  Darius,  Sally  Estes,  and  Maria  Thurber.  Riley's  daughter,  Sarah 
Arnold  Dye,  and  his  son,  Henry  reside  in  Cazenovia,  Louisa  Bailey  near 
Delphi.  Bert  Bond  had  several  children.  A  daughter,  Sarah,  resides  in 
Cortland. 

Forty  years  ago  the  figure  of  John  Ryan,  who  came  from  Delphi,  was 
a  familiar  one  on  the  streets  of  New  Woodstock.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ryan's 
family  consisted  of  4  sons  and  5  daughters.  The  parents  and  six  of  the 
children  are  dead.  The  survivors  are  Statia  (Judd)  of  Montreal,  Canada, 
Anna  (Salisbury)  of  Ohio,  and  Julia  of  Syracuse.  Their  home  was  on 
Albany  street,  where  Mr.  Murdock  resides. 

Nathan  Kinney.  born  in  1785,  married  Roxanna  Thompson,  who  was 
born  in  1788.  They  came  by  way  of  the  old  canal  from  Woodstock,  Conn  , 
about  1820  and  settled  near  the  Moffett's.  They  afterward  lived  in  Nelson, 
and  finally  moved  to  Hovey  Hill,  thence  to  Union.  Mr.  Kinney  was  in 
his  early  days  a  school  teacher.  His  wife  was  an  expert  weaver  of  flannel, 
linen  towels  and  table  spreads,  designing  her  own  patterns.  Their  child- 
ren were  Reuben,  George,  Lawrence  and  Harriet  DeGraff.  Most  of  their 
descendents  live  in  Madison  and  Ououdaga  counties.  A  grandson,  C.  T. 
Kinney,  has  been  road  commissioner  in  DeRuyter. 

Nathan  Smith  was  an  early  settler,  locating  on  the  farm  since  owned 
by  Stephen  Stowell,  Gershom  Morse,  L.  B.  Smith,  and  Mr.  Fletcher.  Mr. 
Smith  set  out  a  large  apple  orchard  which  was  famous  for  the  variety  and 
excellence  of  its  fruit.  He  was  master  builder,  erecting  the  New  Wood- 
stock Baptist  church  in  1815,  and  a  grist  mill  and  saw  mill  on  Limestone 
Creek  near  the  present  site  of  M.  C.  Wood's  flour  and  feed  store.  These 
mills  were  carried  away  by  a  freshet  about  1836,  when  they  were  owned 
by  Samuel  Walker.  Mr.  Smith  built  several  houses  in  this  vicinity,  and 
many  churches  in  other  places.  His  sons,  Harvey  and  Alvin,  were  among 
the  first  merchants  of  New  Woodstock,  trading  here  from  1816  to  1830. 
The  store  was  near  the  site  of  the  Methodist  church,  at  some  distance  from 
the  street,  and  later,  was  moved,  forming  the  upright  part  of  the  house 
until  recently  owned  by  Joseph  Slocum's  estate.  Behind  the  store  were 
distillery  and  brewery  buildings,  belonging  to  the  Smith  merchants. 
The  distillery  was  afterward  sold  to  Philetus  Lathrop.  Before  the  Smith's 
kept  store,  Jesse  Worden,  a  merchant  from  1815  or  earlier,  to  1819,  was 
located,  probably  just  east  of  Jaquith  &  Miller's  present  store.  Harvey 
Smith  lived  where  Mrs.  S.  G.  Fuller  now  resides. 

Joseph  Clark,  brother  of  Kliakim  and  Sidney  Clark,  was  a  merchant 
cotemporary  with  the  Smith  brothers.  His  dwelling  was  on  the  site  of 
Mrs.  R.  W.  Richmond's  place,  his  store  was  the  building  once  owned  by 


HISTORY  OF    NKW    WOODSTOCK.  21 

Eliza  Smith,  now  Winfield  Wilson's  residence.  He  kept  the  store  until 
his  death  in  1834,  and  was  the  first  Post-Master  in  the  village.  Allen 
Dryer  succeeded  him  as  Post-Master,  then  Philetus  Lathrop,  Mrs.  Mary 
Collins,  who  also  kept  a  book  store,  Lathrop  again,  James  \Vadsvvorth, 
Silas  Morse,  Win.  T.  Richmond,  John  Ferguson  for  nearly  19  years,  Kitty 
Ferguson  Poole  for  a  short  time,  J.  H.  Knickerbocker,  F.  L.  Cunningham 
and  E.  E.  Cummiugs,  the  present  incumbent. 

Eliakim  Clark  located  on  Clark  Hill  when  nineteen  years  of  age.  He 
was  a  soldier  of  1812.  He  married  a  daughter  of  Marvel  Underwood. 
Only  four  of  their  large  family  of  children  are  living.  John,  of  McGraw- 
ville,  Louisa,  of  Rome,  Harriet  (Jones)  and  E.  G.  Clark  of  DeRuyter. 
Eliakim  Clark  was  one  of  the  workmen  on  the  Baptist  church. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Walker  came  to  New  Woodstock  asearly  as  1816. 
Mr.  Walker  rebuilt  the  mills  carried  away  in  1836-7,  conducting  the 
grist  and  saw  mill  for  several  years.  Their  children  were  Clara  Bedford, 
Stephen  and  Lewis.  The  latter  married  Miss  Jennie  Brainard  of  DeRuyter 
and  removed  to  California. 

William  Pierce  subsequently  owned  the  mill,  then  Edward  Wallis, 
father  of  Mrs.  F.  L.  Cunningham,  in  partnership  with  Samuel  Corbiu, 
J.  J.  Randall  and  his  son-in-law,  M.  C.  Wood,  buying  it  in  1869.  The 
mills  were  burned  July  23,  1896,  just  two  weeks  after  Sims'  flour  and  feed 
store  was  burned.  The  grist  mill  was  rebuilt  as  a  flour  and  feed  store  with 
no  grinding  facilities.  The  firm  name  is  now  M.  C.  Wood  &  Son. 

James  Reeve  came  from  Long  Island  to  ReRuyter,  locating  in  March 
about  eighty  years  ago  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Chapman,  near 
Delphi  Station.  His  daughter,  Balsora,  became  the  wife  of  Theodorus 
Powell,  who  came  from  Newburg  in  a  prairie  schooner  seventy  years  ago. 
They  lived  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Henry  Miller,  and  afterward  in  the 
Samuel  Walker  house,  where  their  daughter,  Miss  Nancy  Powell,  now  re- 
sides. 

Sunnier  Cleveland  built  a  house  west  of  the  cemetery  in  1823.  It  has 
been  moved  and  is  now  R.  L.  Miller's  meat  market.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cleve. 
land  had  several  children.  Their  daughter,  Elizabeth  married  Timothy 
Coleman,  and  lives  in  Syracuse. 

Gershom  Morse,  once  the  owner  of  the  Nathan  Smith  farm,  came  to 
New  Woodstock,  fifty  years  ago  from  Nelson,  N.  Y.  He  was  of  New 
England  parentage.  His  parents  went  to  Canada,  and  at  the  age  of 
sixteen,  Gershom  was  drafted  into  the  British  army  and  not  wishing  to 
fight  against  his  American  brothers,  he  with  two  comrades  deserted.  One 
of  his  comrades  escaped.  Morse  and  the  other  soldier  were  re-captured  by 
thelndians  and  taken  back,  nearly  losing  their  lives.  They  finally  suc- 
cessfully eluded  their  captors.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morse  had  four  sons  and  two 
daughters.  Their  oldest  son  died  in  Cazeuovia.  Roscoe  and  Divolson 


22  HISTORY  OF    NEW   WOODSTOCK. 

Morse  established  a  cheese  box  factory  about  1864,  carrying  on  the  busi- 
ness a  few  years,  when  Roscoe  bought  his  brother's  interest  and  moved  the 
building  which  stood  near  the  cheese  factory  to  Pearl  street,  south  of  the 
Methodist  parsonage.  It  was  burned  in  1872  and  re-built  the  same  year 
south  of  George  Barber's.  It  was  again  burned  and  was  not  re-built. 
.Roscoe  Morse  and  family  to  went  Florida  where  they  now  reside.  De- 
volson  Morse  continued  his  work  as  a  carpenter,  building  a  pleasant  home 
for  his  family  on  Mill  street.  He  has  been  blind  twenty  years.  Though 
feeling  his  afflictions  he  annoys  no  one  by  a  sad  countenance. 

Sainson  Morse  remained  on  the  Gershom  Morse  farm  several  years. 
His  first  wife  was  Lydia  Slocum.  Their  son  George  is  now  a  resident  of 
Cortland.  Mr.  Morse's  second  wife  was  Alice  Kinney.  Their  home  is  in 
Delphi.  Gershom  Morse's  daughter,  Louisa,  married  Leonard  Freeborn. 
Their  other  daughter,  Josephine,  married  and  died  many  years  ago. 

The  first  schoolhouse,  built  of  logs,  stood  east  of  Jaquith  and  Miller's 
present  store.  John  Powers  and  Mr.  Allen  were  two  of  the  oldtime 
teachers.  In  the  summer  of  1826  it  was  still  standing.  In  the  winter  of 
1826-7  a  part  of  the  "Barn  Meeting  House"  was  used  for  school  purposes, 
presumably  because  the  log  school  house  was  unfit  for  occupation.  The 
old  red  school  house  was  probably  built  soon  after  the  above  date,  and 
was  used  until  1868  when  the  present  building"  was  erected.  Dr.  Coy  was 
the  first  teacher  in  the  red  school  house  of  whom  we  have  record.  Henry 
\V.  Slocum  and  Ezra  W.  Matthews,  both  of  whom  were  afterward  Major- 
Generals  in  the  civil  war;  D.  D.  Chase  and  L.  L  Ainsworth,  who  became 
residents  of  Iowa  and  Representatives  to  Congress  from  that  state,  were 
other  teachers  who  have  been  known  to  fame.  Nancy  Richmond  de  Clercq 
was  the  last  teacher.  The  old  school  house  is  still  standing,  and  is  now 
the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  Preston.  Many  of  the  old-time  boys  and 
girls  go  to  visit  it  and  live  over  again  in  memory  the  old  days  when 
they  had  to  "toe  the  crack."  They  recall  their  anxiety  in  the  spelling 
schools  and  their  pride  when  they  succeeded  in  spelling  down  all  visitors 
thereby  earning  the  then  great  sum  to  them  of  one  shilling,  given  by  the 
teacher,  Chauncey  P.  Wells,  in  the  winter  of  1858  9. 

The  Academy  was  built  in  1833  and  incorporated,  by  act  of  legislature 
as  a  select  school  in  1834.  An  account  of  it  in  its  most  prosperous  early 
days  is  given  elsewhere.  The  school  was  also  highly  prosperous  in  later 
days  under  the  administration  of  Prof.  A.  H.  Forte  and  also  Rev.  and  Mrs. 
I.  K.  Brownsou.  The  building  stood  across  from  the  Baptist  church  and 
was  two  stories  high,  with  a  basement  underneath.  Two  class  rooms  and 
the  main  room  composed  the  second  story.  The  lower  story  was  used  as 
a  school  room  and  also  by  the  Baptists  as  a  conference  and  Sunday  school 
room.  There  were  times  when  the  school  was  large  when  the  basement 
was  also  used  for  recitation  purposes.  The  boarding  house,  called  "Barley 


HISTORY    OF   NEW    WOODSTOCK.  23 


Hall,"  is  now  C.  A.  Buckingham's  residence.  When  used  as  a  boarding 
hall  it  was  a  three  story  building.  The  first  teachers  in  the  present  school 
house  were  Mrs.  Helen  Loomis  Ferry  and  Miss  Martha  McDonold.  The 
present  teachers  are  Dana  Dennison,  Principal,  Miss  Carrie  Byer  and  Miss 
Alice  Freeborn,  teachers  in  the  lower  rooms.  Mrs.  Alice  Gardner  Wor- 
lock  is  the  only  person  who  has  taught  in  the  old  red  school  house,  the 
academy,  and  the  present  building. 

In  1834,  Harvey  Morris  came  to  New  Woodstock  from  Eaton,  N.  Y., 
and  opened  a  store  on  the  north-east  corner  of  Albany  and  Mill  streets. 
In  1840  he  took  as  a  partner  his  nephew,  Thomas  Morris  A  very,  of  Perry- 
ville.  Within  a  year  Mr.  Morris  died  and  Mr.  A  very  continued  the  busi- 
ness until  1851,  when  he  went  to  Chicago,  entering  the  lumber  business. 
In  1875,  after  acquiring  a  fortune,  he  sold  his  lumber  interests  and  devot- 
ed his  entire  time  to  the  Elgin  Watch  Company,  which  he  had  organized 
in  1867.  At  the  time  the  Watch  Company  was  organized  there  was  a 
capital  stock  of  $100,000.  Under  the  direction  of  Mr.  Avery  the  business 
increased  so  steadily  that,  in  1884,  the  stock  was  made  $2,000,000;  in  1890 
this  was  doubled.  Mr.  Avery  retired  from  all  active  business  in  1899. 
He  died,  May  26,  1901.  He  married  in  1847  his  cousin,  Margaret,  the 
daughter  of  Harvey  Morris.  They  had  two  sons.  Mr.  Avery  survived 
them,  leaving  two  grandchildren  as  heirs. 

Baum  and  Wadsworth,  afterward  Baum  and  Stanton,  succeeded  Mr. 
Avery  as  merchants.  They  were  followed  by  Jairus  Bell  and  he  in  turn  by 
the  firm  of  C.  W.  Hill,  now  of  Syracuse,  and  William  H.  Savage.  The 
last  mentioned  conducted  the  store  from  1858  to  1861.  They  were  suc- 
ceeded by  Oliver  D.  Huntley  and  his  son,  Win.  W.  ;  then  by  T.  F. 
Huntley  who  sold  the  business  to  Mr.  Schwartz,  of  Canastota.  James 
Reed  of  Syracuse,  was  the  next,  then  G.  D.  Wallace  of  Syracuse.  Mr. 
Wallace  sold  to  Perry  Jaquith,  who  still  owns  the  building.  His  son, 
Willard  A.  Jaquith,  and  son-in-law,  Harry  L.  Miller,  carry  on  a  large  busi- 
ness in  general  merchandise. 

Hopkins  and  Stiles  were  merchants  previous  to  Harvey  Morris,  and 
were  located  on  the  same  site.  Mr.  Hopkins  raised  the  money  to  purchase 
goods  by  buying  poor  horses,  getting  them  in  good  condition,  and  finding 
sale  for  them  in  New  York.  He"  was  an  excellent  judge  of  goods  and  the- 
belles  of  New  Woodstock  wanted  nothing  better  than  to  take  "Hopkins' 
Choice.'1 

Samuel  Hubbard  and  George  Russell,  who  married  Lizzie  Greene, 
Mr.  Hubbard's  adopted  daughter,  kept  store  on  the  corner  opposite  Harvey 
Morris  about  1840.  They  were  followed  by  Philetus  Lathrop,  Esq.,  who 
previously  owned  a  distillery,  and  rectified  whiskey.  He  manufactured 
potash,  the  building  standing  just  above  the  present  cheese  factory. 
V.  Lamphere  was  teamster  and  general  clerk.  Mr.  Lamphere  built  the 


24  HISTORY   01'    NKW   \VOODSTOCK. 

house  where  Dr.  Parker  now  resides.  Mr.  Lathrop  served  as  Justice  of  the 
Peace  for  many  years.  Other  Justices  were  J.J.  Wadsworth,  D.  B.  Frix.elle 
Royal  Ellis,  G.  S.  Poole,  and  the  present  incumbent,  M.  C.  Wood. 

Ksquire  Lathrop  was  a  man  esteemed  in  the  community.  He  was  a 
tall  slight  man  with  black  eyes  and  hair  somewhat  inclined  to  curl,  which 
he  always  kept  very  slick,  and  very  black.  He  wore  a  stove-pipe  hat,  and 
\\as  very  prim  and  neat  in  his  dress.  He  never  married,  and  died  at  the 
age  of  seventy-eight.  The  store  was  afterward  partly  occupied  by  E.  W. 
Gunn  and  F.  W.  Tucker  as  a  flour  and  feed  store,  and  by  P.  K.  Jaquith  in 
the  mercantile  business.  It  was  burned  in  1890. 

E.  W.  Gunn,  when  a  lad  of  twelve,  came  to  New  Woodstock  with  his 
parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Horace  Gunn,  from  Burton,  Ohio,  about  sixty  years 
ago.  His  parents  after  a  few  years,  returned  to  their  former  home,  Mr. 
Gunn  remaining,  and  relying  on  his  own  exertions  to  make  a  living.  In 
1856  he  began  in  mercantile  business.  His  partners  at  different  times 
were  Alonzo,  J.  J.,  and  F.  W.  Tucker.  They  occupied  at  one  time  the  store 
subsequently  used  by  Orrin  S.  Smith,  and  John  Ferguson  as  general 
merchants  in  1866,  and  after  a  year,  by  Mr.  Smith  alone.  The  store,  which 
stood  on  the  south-east  corner,  opposite  the  hotel,  was  burned  in  1893 
when  occupied  by  Levi  Reed  as  a  grocery.  The  first  cheese  factory  in  the 
town  was  built  in  New  Woodstock  in  1862-3  by  E.  W.  Gunn  and  F.  W. 
Tucker.  J.  M.  Lownsberry  and  sons  purchased  it  in  1873.  Mr.  Lowns- 
berry  was  a  native  of  Fenner  and  built  the  second  cheese  factory  in  the 
county.  He  was  highly  respected  in  the  community.  His  death  occurred 
in  1884.  C.  A.  Buckingham  purchased  the  factory  in  1885,  and  still  owns 
it. 

In  1875  the  old  academy  building  was  purchased  by  Dr.  A.  D.  Smith 
and  Orrin  Ferry,  and  moved  to  its  present  location.  It  was  occupied  a 
number  of  years  by  W.  W.  Huntley,  as  a  store.  He  was  succeeded  by 
Charles  A.  Fox,  who  sold  out  in  the  spring  of  1901  to  E.  E.  Cummings 
and  H.  K.  Stoddard.  Mr.  Cummings  had  been  clerk  in  the  store  several 
years  and  Mr.  Stoddard,  a  native  of  Otselic,  resided  here  in  his  early  days. 
He  returned  as  a  teacher  in  1899. 

Calvin  B.  Stowell  was  a  blacksmith  and  co-temporary  with  Pliny  and 
Orrin  Sabin.  He  lived  in  the  house  where  "Hiram  Estes  now  resides  which 
was  moved  to  its  present  site  when  \Vm.  T.  Richmond  sold  it  to  the  rail- 
road. Mr.  Stowell  owned  a  blacksmith  shop  east  of  W.  H.  Smith's  house 
which  was  then  a  shoe  shop  and  dwelling  owned  by  Mr.  Mix.  He  em- 
ployed seven  men  and  made  hoes,  shovels,  bunch  hooks,  axes  and  knives. 
Every  year  he  went  overland  to  Pennsylvania  to  sell  his  wares  and  was 
gone  three  or  four  weeks.  He  was  an  upright  business  man,  a  power  in 
the  community,  and  was  frequently  called  upon  to  settle  estates.  At  the 
time  Mr.  Stowell  was  a  resident  of  New  Woodstock  the  pigeons  were  so 


Photo  by  J.  E.  Knight 


Photo  by  W  S  Huntley 

Lathrop's  Corner,  burned  1890 
Dr.  A.  D.  Smith's  Residence  and  Drug  Store 


HISTORY  O?   NEW    WOODSTOCK.  25 

thick  and  so  tame  that  they  could  be  picked  off  the  trees.     Once  two   bu- 
shels thus  obtained  were  cooked  at  Mr.  Stowell's  house. 

Dr.  Moffett  was  the  first  resident  physician.  He  was  followed  by  Dr. 
Gibbs,  who  was  a  student.  Dr.  Sherwood  studied  with  Dr.  Gibbs.  Dr. 
Stephen  P.  Collins  was  here  from  1828  to  1838.  In  1826  he  married  Mary  A. 
Babcock,  of  Boston,  Mass.  He  died  in  Michigan.  Their  daughter,  Mary, 
married  Harrison  Garrett  and  removed  to  Minnesota,  her  mother  going 
with  her.  There  were  two  sons,  Norman,  who  died  in  Texas,  and  Gideon 
B.  Collins,  who  died  in  Manitowoc,  Wis.  Mrs.  Collins  died  October  3, 
1901,  aged  nearly  93.  Dr.  John  Goodell  was  a  student  of  his  father-in-law, 
Dr.  John  Heffron,  and  practiced  with  him  in  Erieville  from  1820  to  1834, 
then  went  to  Delphi  where  he  practiced  about  five  years.  He  then  located 
in  New  Woodstock,  building  the  house  where  Dr.  A.  D.  Smith  now  lives. 
He  died  in  1850  at  the  age  of  50.  His  epitaph,  "  He  lived  and  died  a 
Christian,"  fully  expresses  what  manner  of  man  he  was.  He  was  succeeded 
by  Dr.  Lorenzo  Heffron,  who  stayed  here  a  few  years,  then  settled  in  Fa- 
bius  where  he  died.  Dr.  John  L.  Heffron,  of  Syracuse,  is  his  son,  and  was 
born  in  New  Woodstock.  The  Heffrons  were  originally  from  Swanzey, 
N.  H. 

Dr.  C.  W.  Adams  was  the  next  physician.  E.  S.  Mumford  studied 
with  him,  afterward  locating  in  DeRuyter  and  Syracuse.  Dr.  A.  D.  Smith 
succeeded  Adams,  and  is  still  a  resident  physician.  Dr.  N.  P.  Warner  was 
a  student  with  Dr.  Smith,  afterward  having  a  lucrative  practice  and  a  large 
ride  here.  He  married  Adella,  daughter  of  E.  W.  Gunn.  .  After  a  few 
years  he  removed  to  Syracuse,  where  he  died.  Other  physicians  were  W. 
D.  Thayer,  Joseph  Ferry,  both  of  whom  moved  to  Fabius ;  Franklin  W. 
Root,  J.  F.  Place,  Win.  Davis,  who  died  here  after  a  few  months'  practice, 
and  was  succeeded  by  J.  B.  Allen,  now  of  Syracuse.  Dr.  Halsey  F.  Stevens, 
of  Brooklyn,  came  after  Dr.  Allen,  in  a  few  years  removing  to  Trux- 
ton.  While  a  resident  of  this  place,  his  only  child,  Willard  Stevens,  was 
accidentally  drowned  near  Gardner's  mill.  Dr.  Donald  Parker  is  now  a 
resident  physician. 

Wni.  T.  Richmond,  a  native  of  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  came  here  in  1841  with 
his  wife  and  three  daughters,  Fanny,  married  Daniel  Frizelle,  Mary, 
who  died,  and  Sarah,  afterward  the  wife  of  J.  H.  Knickerbocker.  Mr. 
Richmond  paid  Calvin  Stowell  $1,100  for  land  from  the  Joseph  Slocum 
place  to  the  place  recently  owned  by  J.  J.  Morse.  He  sold  his  brother-in- 
law,  Samuel  Hubbard,  the  site  where  he  built  the  house  which  became 
the  Baptist  parsonage,  afterward  Mr.  Richmond's  home,  now  owned  by 
D.  B.  Frizelle's  children.  Mr.  Richmond  lived  many  years  in  the  Calvin 
Stowell  house.  The  house  built  by.Daniel  Stone,  afterward  owned  by  J.  L. 
Hatch,  J.  M.  lyowusberry,  and  now  by  Henry  C.  Day,  also  the  house  built 


26  HISTORY  OF    NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


by  Joseph  Coley,  now  owned  by  M.  C.  Wood,  were   built  on  land  sold  by 
Mr.  Richmond. 

Samuel  Thomas,  a  harness  maker,  who  afterward  moved  to  Cazenovia, 
came  to  New  Woodstock  in  1842,  J.  H  Knickerbocker  coming  with  him. 
With  the  exception  of  a  few  years  spent  in  the  Glove  Factory,  Mr.  Knick- 
erbocker worked  at  harness  making.  He  was  chorister  of  the  Baptist 
church  forty-eight  years  and  filled  other  positions  of  trust  in  the  church. 
Reorganized  and  conducted  singing  schools  in  several  places  in  Madison 
county.  His  wife  was  also  very  efficient  in  church  work,  especially  in 
singing.  Mr.  Knickerbocker  died  in  1895,  his  wife  in  1900. 

Jared  Hubbard  and  family  came  here  about  1842.  A  son,  W.  H.  Hub- 
bard,  resides  in  Boston,  and  a  daughter,  Mrs.  Eva  Eastman,  in  Bingham- 
ton. 

One  of  the  highest  points  of  land  in  Madison  county  is  Bacon  Hill. 
There  Levi  Bacon,  a  soldier  of  1812,  took  up  land,  and  there  his  twelve 
children  were  born.  Four  of  the  sons  were  in  the  Civil  war.  Henry,  Tru- 
man and  Madison  are  now  residents  of  New  Woodstock.  • 

About  fifty  years  ago,  David  Wise  came  here.  He  had  a  large  family 
of  children,  most  of  whom  now  live  west.  His  daughter,  Lottie,  married 
Warren  Diefendorf,  who  owns  the  blacksmith  shop,  and  the  house  south 
of  it  on  the  DeRuyter  road.  They  live  in  Clockville.  Other  blacksmiths, 
besides  those  already  mentioned  who  have  resided  here  are  Samuel  and  S. 
P.  Bulkley,  G.  S.  Poole,  F.  Smith,  and  Richard  Wood,  now  of  George- 
town. Mr.  Wood  was  chorister  at  the  Methodist  church  when  living  here. 
Will  Carey  is  the  resident  blacksmith. 

The  first  mail  carrier  was  a  man  on  horseback,  carrying  the  mail  in  sad- 
dle bags,  and  blowing  a  horn  to  attract  attention  There  was  originally  a 
plank  road  from  DeRuyter  to  Oneida  lake.  Later,  a  mail  route  was  es- 
tablished from  DeRuyter  to  Chittenango.  The  eighteen  mile  drive  from 
New  Woodstock  to  that  station  to  reach  the  New  York  Central  railroad  in 
the  four-horse  stage,  Jed  Buckingham,  driver,  loaded  with  passengers  in- 
side and  out,  is  still  remembered.  In  1872-3,  the  Cazenovia  and  Canastota 
railroad  was  extended  to  DeRuyter,  connecting  there  with  the  Utica, 
Chenango  and  Cortland.  It  is  now  a  branch  of  the  Lehigh  Valley  rail- 
road. W.  F.  Sims  was  the  first  station  agent  at  New  Woodstock,  and  was 
succeeded  by  E.  E.  Poole.  C.  B.  Hugg,  who  is  a  native  of  Spencer,  N.  Y., 
in  addition  to  his  duties  as  station  agent,  is  engaged  in  the  coal  trade, 
handles  water  lime,  cement,  vast  quantities  of  cabbage  and  potatoes  in 
their  season,  and  also  carries  on  the  insurance  business. 

S.  S.  Hayes  is  a  veteran  shoe  dealer,  having  been  here  twenty-seven 
years.  Fred  and  Harley  Hamlin,  natives  of  New  Woodstock,  sons  of  the 
late  J.  E.  Hamlin,  went  from  Iliofl  as  soldiers  in  the  Cuban  war. 

"Grandma  Slocum,"  who  was  born  in  Lenox,  N.  Y.,  on  Christmas, 


Photo  AV.  /,  copy  by  E.  D.  Benjamin  ;  Photo  No.  4,  by  W.  S.  Huntley  ;  Photo  No. 
by  Alice  Freeborn 


Mrs.  R.  W.  Richmoni 
Mrs.  Semira  Leary 
Mrs.  S.  Freeborn 


Mrs.  J.  L.  Hatch 
Mrs.  Joseph  Slocum 
Mrs.  C.  Allen 


HISTORY  OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  27 

1803,  is  the  oldest  resident.  Her  maiden  name  was  Elvira  Griggs.  Until 
very  recently  she  has  been  able  to  attend  church  regularly.  Her  mind  is 
still  active.  She  married  Joseph  Slocum  and  is  cared  for  by  his  daughter, 
Mrs.  Warren  Lee. 

"  Esquire"  A.  Dryer,  who  was  here  in  the  first  half  of  the  nineteenth 
century  was  probably  a  descendant  of  James  Dryer,  a  resident  in  1802.  Mr. 
Dryer  was  a  lawyer  and  held  several  responsible  town  offices  The  family 
were  frequently  mentioned  as  "the  cripple  family,'1  as  Mr.  Dryer  and  sev- 
eral of  his  family  were  afflicted  with  lameness.  The  children  were  highly 
educated,  one  daughter  going  as  a  missionary  to  the  Tonawanda  Indians. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  E.  Hamlin,  who  came  here  in  1862  purchased  in  1879  the 
place  once  owned  by  Mr.  Dryer,  and  had  it  removed  from  its  site  on  Al- 
bany street  to  its  present  location. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Allen  bought  the  farm  about  1863  of  Gurdin 
Barnard  which  they  afterward  sold  to  its  present  owner,  L.  B.  Smith,  and 
purchased  a  home  on  DeRuyter  street  where  they  died  in  1900. 

Deacon  and  Mrs.  Ebenezer  Bentley,  with  his  son,  Daniel  and  family, 
came  to  New  Woodstock  from  Lincklaen,  buying  the  Elisha  Webber  farm 
of  N.  L.  Webber  when  he  removed  to  Cazenovia.  They  were  good  citizens 
and  are  especially  remembered  for  liberal  giving  in  the  Baptist  church  in 
this  place.  Deacon  Bentley  and  wife  died  on  the  farm  Daniel  Bentley 
and  family  removed  to  Cazenovia,  selling  their  farm  to  Joseph  Shattuck. 
Mr.  Bentley  died  in  Cazenovia  in  1900. 

Deacon  Erastus  Mann  was  a  resident  of  West  Woodstock,  afterward 
buying  the  house  in  New  Woodstock,  where  he  and  his  wife  resided  until 
their  death.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  H.  B.  Griffith  now  occupy  the  house.  Their 
son,  Clinton,  was  also  a  resident  in  this  vicinity  for  several  years  His 
widow,  Hannah  Gibbon  Mann,  now  owns  theOrrin  Ferry  place.  J.  Billings 
Mann,  the  youngest  son  of  Erastus  Maun,  became  a  Baptist  minister,  at- 
tending Madison  University  and  Rochester  Theological  Seminary.  He 
married  Delana  Eastman,  of  New  Woodstock  and  went  west  as  a  Home 
Missionary.  His  health  failing,  he  returned  to  New  Woodstock,  where  he 
died. 

Alonzo  Gibson  owned  the  Frizelle  farm,  and  also,  at  one  time  the  W. 
D.  Thayer  place,  now  M.  R.  Burdick's  home. 

In  mentioning  the  little  hamlet  of  Union,  nothing  has  been  said  of  the 
tavern  which  once  stood  where  is  now  the  home  of  Mr.  and  Miss  Jones. 
A  trip  hammer  factor}7  was  a  little  northeast  of  the  tavern,  and  west  of  it 
is  the  present  home  of  Morse  Wagner.  On  the  south  side  of  the  road  is 
the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sidney  Bowers  Mrs.  Bowers  is  the  daughter  of 
the  pioneer,  Jacob  Post,  and  resides  on  her  father's  old  farm.  The  Albert 
Card  farm  eas'  of  the  schoolhouse,  is  now  owned  by  Hamilton  Thomp- 
son. Mr.  Card  had  two  sous.  Frank  married  Abigail  Bliss  and  lives  in 


28  HISTORY  OF   NEW   WOODSTOCK. 

Brooklyn.  Everett  S.  Card  was  a  successful  banker  in  Cazenovia  for 
several  years.  He  then  failed  in  business,  commenced  again  and  again 
failed.  He  married  Mary  Nash,  of  Cazenovia,  and  they  now  reside  in  New 
York. 

Benjamin  Virgil  and  family  were  early  settlers  and  prominent  people 
whose  opinions  had  much  weight.  In  1821  the  place  became  greatly 
stirred  up  against  Mr.  Virgil  for  punishing  beyond  measure  a  child  who 
lived  with  them.  The  matter  was  investigated,  acknowledgement  made, 
and  the  wormwood  given  to  the  child  was  sweet  to  the  taste  in  comparison 
to  the  stain  that  left  an  indeliable  mark.  "  The  little  candle  "  will  continue 
to  "throw  its  beams,"  not  only  in  this  case,  but,  for  good  or  evil  its  light 
shines  on  the  deeds  of  all  of  us  who  are  making  history  that  shall  bear  its 
mark  far  down  the  ages. 


History  of  West  Woodstock. 


John  Lincklaeu,  of  Amsterdam,  Holland,  came  to  this  country  in  1790 
for  the  Holland  Land  Company,  who  employed  hinj  to  explore  new 
countries,  and  to  purchase  land  where  he  could  do  so  advantageously. 
He  brought  letters  of  introduction  to  Theophilus  Cazenove,  of  Philadel- 
phia, who  was  the  company's  first  general  agent  to  America,  the  Holland 
Purchase,  in  the  western  part  of  the  state  having  been  purchased  by  him. 
Mr.  Lincklaen  began  his  work  in  September,  1792,  accompanied  by  two 
hardy  woodmen.  He  kept  a  journal,  originally  written  in  French,  which 
has  been  preserved  by  his  family.  This  journal  states  that  he  arrived, 
Oct.  ir,  1792,  at  the  foot  of  a  lake,  called  by  the  Indian  name  of  Owahgena 
This  lake  was  afterward  called,  "  Lincklaen  Lake,1'  in  honor  of  John 
Lincklaen.  It  is  now  Cazenovia  Lake.  He  returned  to  Philadelphia  after 
about  a  month's  absence.  As  a  result  of  his  report  the  Holland  Company 
purchased  Road  Township,  now  Cazenovia,  and  other  lands  in  this  sec- 
tion totheamountof  i2o,oooacres.  In  Apr.  1793,  Samuel  S.  FormanmetMr. 
Lincklaen  by  appointment  in  New  York  City  and  came  as  his  clerk  to 
Cazenovia.  They  pitched  their  tents  in  a  small  ravine  at  the  south  end 
of  the  lake,  May  8,  1793.  A  land  office  was  soon  established,  and  among 
the  early  settlers  was  Isaac  Morse,  then  only  twenty-one  years  of  age. 
Mr.  Morse  was  one  of  the  first  pioneers,  coming  here  June  i,  1793,  less  than 
a  month  after  John  Lincklaen  and  his  party.  No  record  can  be  found  of 
those  who  came  with  him.  Their  first  encampment  was  at  the  foot  of 
what  are  now  called  the  West  Woodstock  hills,  on  the  north  side  of  the 
road,  west  of  where  are  now  Mr.  Mead's  barns,  in  a  little  ravine  by  the 


Copied  by  G.  E.  Butler 


Mr.  and  Mrs.  Isaac  Morse 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Fiske 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Samuel  Smith 


HISTORY  OF  NEW    WOODSTOCK.  29 

brook.  The  original  house  built  by  Mr.  Morse  is  still  standing  on  the 
south  side  of  the  road,  owned  and  occupied  by  Oliver  Hatch  and  his  sister, 
Mrs.  R.  J.  Sunderlin.  Mr.  Morse's  land  extended  from  that  point  to  the 
schoolhouse  on  the  hill,  and  once,  when  on  his  way  to  milk  the  cow,  he 
caught  a  bear's  cub  which  he  soon  dropped  because  of  its  mother's  wrath. 
The  boundaries  of  the  land  when  the  country  was  a  wilderness  were  in- 
dicated by  blazed  posts  and  trees,  as  shown  by  the  original  deeds,  in  the 
possession  of  Mr.  Morse's  nephew,  Sylvenus  Gage,  between  John  Linck- 
laen  of  the  county  of  Herkimer,  State  of  New  York,  as  well  for  himself  as 
for  Herman  Leroy  of  the  City  of  New  York,  and  Isaac  Morse,  of  the  county 
of  Windham  and  State  of  Connecticut.  The  amount  of  land  purchased, 
June  8,  1793,  was  150  acres,  more  or  less,  and  ninety  pounds,  current 
money  of  the  State  of  New  York  was  the  price  paid.  A  year  later,  Mr. 
Morse  bought  of  the  same  parties  143  acres,  one  rood  and  25  perches,  for 
one  hundred  seventy-two  pounds,  one  shilling,  nine  pence,  which  was 
double  the  price  paid  the  year  before.  Both  deeds  were  witnessed  by 
Jonathan  and  Samuel  S.  Formau,  and  were  recorded  in  the  Clerk's  office 
of  the  County  of  Herkimer,  Nov.  19,  1796.  Thirty-three  years  later,  Mr. 
Morse  bought  12  acres  nlore  for  which  he  paid  three  hundred  sixty  dol- 
lars. As  will  be  seen,  Mr.  Morse  had  purchased  over  300  acres  of  land; 
paying  in  1793,  about  three  dollars  per  acre,  and  in  1827,  thirty  dollars  per 
acre.  His  first  land  was  purchased  twyo  years  before  Cazenovia  became  a 
town,  and  thirteen  years  before  the  County  was  called  "Madison."  The 
original  county  was  Albany,  formed  in  1683.  March  21,  1806,  Madison 
County  was  so  named  in  honor  of  President  Madison. 

In  the  settlement  of  the  southern  part  of  the  town,  West  Woodstock, 
then  called  "Woodstock  Settlement,"  and  also  "Bull's  Corners,"  was  of 
more  importance  in  early  days  than  New  Woodstock.  Mr.  Morse  was 
largely  instrumental  in  building  up  that  section.  As  he  came  from 
Woodstock,  Windham  Co.  Conn.,  and  several  other  young  men  and  their 
families  came  from  the  same  place  early  in  the  nineteenth  century, — 
among  them  Marvel  and  Abisnai  Underwood,  Silas  Corbin  and  sons, 
Ebenezer,  Luther,  and  Henry,  Ezra  Lyon,  Warner,  Calvin  and  John 
Goodell,  Elisha  Gage  and  family  and  Abiel  Ainsworth,  we  naturally  infer 
that  the  new  home  was  called  "Woodstock  Settlement"  in  memory  of  the 
old  home.  As  New  Woodstock  is  east  of  the  first  settlement,  that  in 
time  was  called  West  Woodstock.  The  first  Baptist  meeting  house,  built 
of  logs,  stood  in  Sylvanus  Gage's  orchard.  The  first  Methodist  meeting 
house  stood  on  the  north  side  of  the  road,  between  the  West  Woodstock 
schoolhouse  and  places  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Pettingill,  near  the  four  cor- 
ners. It  was  sold  in  1856  to  Mansier  G.  Thomas,  used  a  few  years  as  a 
dwelling  house  by  Jesse  Hakes,  then  given  to  Mr.  Thomas'  son,  M.  C. 
Thomas,  who  moved  it  to  the  Elder  Peck  farm,  which  he  bought  of  Beri 


30  HISTORY  OF    NEW   WOODSTOCK. 

Dixon  and  Erastus  Carpenter.     It  is  now  used  as  a  granary.     The    farm    is 
now  owned  by  Edward  T.  Buell. 

There  were  once  two  schoolhouses  in  the  district.  James  Moore,  who 
owned  the  place,  now  Jerry  Hitchcock's  which  has  also  been  owned  by  P. 
R.  Gorton,  Asa  Merrill  and  Joseph  Covil,  gave  the  land  for  the  school- 
house  on  West  Woodstock  hill,  with  the  understanding  that  it  should  re- 
vert to  the  owner  of  the  original  farm  when  no  longer  used  for  school  pur- 
poses. The  district  afterward  bought  the  land,  paying  ten  dollars  for  it. 
The  other  schoel  house  was  on  the  road  to  De  Ruyter,  west  side,  in  a  hol- 
low north  of  the  place  once  owned  by  a  soldier  of  1812,  Ebenezer  Cotes. 
He  came  from  Connecticut,  and  his  first  wife  was  a  sister  of  Willard  Abbott. 
Their  children  were  Abijah  Cotes  and  Harvey  Cotes.  Two  daughters, 
Minerva  and  Roxy,  were  the  children  of  the  second  wife.  Abijah  Cotes 
afterward  owned  the  farm,  selling  it  to  its  present  owner,  John  Ackley. 
Abijah  Cotes  married  Etneline  Stilwell,  niece  of  Thomas  Morris.  Their 
children  are  Warren,  of  Chicago  and  Miss  Sarah  Cotes  of  New  Woodstock. 

One  of  the  first  roads  from  DeRuyter  ran  east  from  what  is  now  John 
Dixon's,  coming  out  below  Frank  Tucker's  thence  north  past  the  tavern 
on  the  corner  built  by  Isaac  Morse,  coming  out  near  Sidney  Bowers'  place 
at  Union.  When  the  first  stage  route  from  Ithaca  through  DeRuyter  was 
built,  the  road  was  altered,  and  went  past  the  Fiske  farm,  coming  out  at 
Jerry  Hitchcock's,  where  it  crossed  the  Hamilton  and  Skaneateles  turn- 
pike, going  to  Syracuse  by  way  of  Manlius.  Thomas  C.  Nye  owned  the 
first  stage  route.  John  and  David  Pomeroy  were  the  drivers.  The  first 
landlord  of  the  tavern  was  Mr.  Wood;  second,  Nathaniel  Carpenter,  and 
seventy-five  years  ago,  Mr.  Rew,  grandfather  of  Mrs.  Samuel  Corbin,  was 
landlord.  Jacob  Ten-Eyck,  of  Cazenovia,  once  held  a  mortgage  on  the 
tavern;  Chester  Gage  paid  it  and  bought  the  property,  afterward  selling 
it  to  Elijah  Cotes  and  Ezekiel  Carpenter.  N.  F.  Parker  is  the  present 
owner. 

Mr.  Morse  built  a  store  on  the  northwest  corner  which  was  kept  by 
Mr.  Turner,  and  later  by  Mansier  G.  Thomas,  who  lived  back  of  the  store 
and  also  rented  rooms  in  it.  Samuel  Corbin  was  clerk  for  Mr.  Thomas  in 
1840.  The  building  was  afterward  made  into  a  dwelling  house.  Patrick 
Moran  lived  in  it,  south  of  where  Ellis  Smith  now  lives. 

There  were  two  distilleries,  one  built  by  Isaac  Morse  on  the  corner 
where  George  King  now  lives;  the  other,  built  by  Horatio  Goodell,  was  on 
the  southwest  corner  of  the  Noah  Howe  farm,  which  is  now  owned  by  his 
grandson,  Sylvanus  Gage,  except  the  land  where  the  distillery  stood, 
which  is  now  owned  by  George  Dixou.  Mr.  Howe  'came  from  Amherst, 
Mass.,  in  1814. 

There  were  two  blacksmith  shops.  Richard  Allen  and  his  son,  Joseph, 
owned  one,  and  Leroy  Ainsworth  the  other.  A  gristmill  was  built  east  of 


HISTORY  OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  31 

the  road,  and  north  of  the  bridge  near  P.  S.  Buell's house.  There  was  also 
a  sawmill,  owned  by  the- pioneer  Jacob  Post  and  a  brick  and  lime  kiln 
farther  west  on  the  same  stream.  This  was  carried  away  by  the  flood  in 
1837.  Marvin  Stowell,  a  tanner  and  shoemaker,  lived  where  Mrs.  Pinney 
afterward  lived.  Mr.  Pinuey  owned  a  tannery.  Daniel  Lathrop,  father 
of  Philetus,  took  up  the  last  fifty  acres  in  the  township.  His  farm  has 
since  been  owned  by  John  Holmes,  Mr.  Hamlin,  Erastus  Mann,  Mr. 
Dixon,  Jonas  Reeve,  and  now  by  John  Dixon.  Noah  Howe,  John  Watson, 
who  once  lived  in  the  Moran  house,  Ebenezer  Corbin  and  Isaac  Morse 
married  sisters  of  Warner,  Calvin  and  John  Goodell.  Calvin  Goodell  mar- 
ried a  daughter  of  Eld.  Joseph  Coley.  Isaac  Morse  was  twice  married. 
His  second  wife,  Sally  Gorton,  was  a  sister  of  P.  R.  Gorton.  Nancy 
Goodell  Morse  was  the  mother  of  Philena  [Abbott],  Priscilla  [Freeborn] 
Nancy  [Peck],  Emily  [Dryer]  and  Jedediah  Morse.  Mr.  Morse  built  the 
house  where  Mr.  Mead  now  lives,  and  moved  there,  his  son,  Jedediah 
owning  the  old  home  a  few  years,  then  going  west.  Willard  Carpenter 
bought  the  farm,  his  son,  Hiram,  living  with  him.  Others  owning  the  place 
are  John  Atkinson,  DeGrand  Benjamin,  Gurdin  Barnard,  Mrs.  Sunderlin, 
and  her  brother,  Oliver  Hatch.  Mr.  Morse  was  a  man  of  sound  judgment 
and  was  greatly  respected.  He  was  one  of  the  first  road  commissioners  in 
the  town.  During  his  later  years,  his  daughter.  Phila,  the  only  child  who 
remained  here,  with  her  husband,  Jared  Abbott,  lived  with  him.  The  first 
pioneer,  he  outlived  many  who  came  later,  dying  in  1858,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-six.  Mrs.  Abbott  sold  the  farm  to  M.  W.  Richmond.  Other  own- 
ers have  been  James  Barnard,  M.  C.  Thomas,  and  Mr.  Mead. 

In  1834,  Deacon  John  Morse  and  family  came  here  from  Westmoreland. 
He  bought  a  farm  of  Burdick  Wallace.  Two  of  his  sons,  Theodore  and 
Jared,  afterward  purchased  it,  agreeing  to  pay  the  other  heirs  a  certain 
amount.  Succeeding  in  paying  for  the  farm  in  a  short  time,  their  father 
wished  them  to  reconsider  the  matter,  and  to  pay  the  others  more  than  the 
amount  agreed  upon,  which  they  did.  Jerman  Morse,  son  of  Jared,  now 
owns  the  farm.  His  father  and  mother  dying  when  he  was  a  child,  he  lived 
with  his  uncle,  Theodore,  who  is  still  remembered  for  his  quaint  remarks, 
and  his  ability  as  a  cattle  buyer. 

Dr.  Henry  Bass  was  an  early  p'lysician  here,  at  one  time  living  in  the 
Pettingill  house  at  the  Corners.  Others  living  there  were  Abram  Book- 
hout,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pope,  grandparents  of  Mrs.  E.  Cunningham,  and  Mrs. 
Estella  Churchward-Chapman.  Dr.  David  Mitchell,  born  in  Westmore- 
land, N.  H.,  in  1793,  and  a  graduate  of  Amherst  College,  came  here  in 
1817,  living  east  of  the  tavern  at  West  Woodstock,  in  a  house  that  is  no 
longer  standing.  He  remained  here  several  years,  then  removed  to  Caze- 
novia,  where  he  practiced  until  his  death  in  1873.  Daniel  and  Elizabeth 
Fiske  came  here  from  Fiske  Hill,  Sturbridge,  Mass.  Mr.  Fiske  bought 


32  HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK. 

the  original  Marvel  Underwood  place.  He  was  a  small,  blue-eyed  man 
whose  word  was  considered  law  in  his  family,  unfailing  obedience  being 
demanded  and  given.  Six  of  the  ten  children  came  with  the  parents  and 
settled  in  this  state.  John  was  the  only  one  who  located  here  permanently. 
He  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Elder  John  Peck,  and  stayed  on  the  farm 
with  his  father.  He  had  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  Mrs.  Sarah  Pren- 
tice, Miss  Mary  Fiske,  and  one  son,  John  Peck  Fiske;  all  who  are  left  are 
living  in  Detroit,  Mich.  John  Fiske  was  a  prominent  man,  a  school  teacher 
and  a  leader  of  the  Baptist  choir  for  thirty  years.  Nearly  every  winter  he 
held  weekly  choir  meetings  in  New  Woodstock.  Mr.  Fiske  sold  his 
farm  to  H.  P.  Hart,  and  it  has  since  been  owned  by  Richmond  and  Fuller, 
Clinton  Mann,  H.  B.  Vedder,  A.  R.  Jenkins,  and  its  present  owner  is  H. 
W.  Coley,  of  Oneida. 

Elisha  Gage,  1754-1833,  of  Woodstock,  Conn.,  married  Olive  Under- 
wood in  1778.  They  came  here  about  1799,  and  settled  on  ten  acres  of  land 
south  of  the  Howe  farm.  They  afterward  lived  north  of  Eld.  Peck's.  They 
had  ten  children,  Luther,  1779-1802,  one  of  the  constituent  members  of  the 
Baptist  church.  Lucy  (Carpenter),  1780,  Elisha,  1782,  Olive,  1784,  Nancy, 
1786,  Chester,  1789,  Anna,  1791,  Salmon,  1794,  Elias,  1796,  and  Zeriah, 
1799.  Salmon  married  Irene  Howe,  daughter  of  Noah  Howe,  and  lived 
where  their  son,  Sylvanus  now  lives.  He  was  a  carpenter  and  built 
Warren  Smith's  house  at  Shed's  Corners,  LaFayette  Brown's  house  on  the 
west  road  and  Issac  Morse's  last  residence.  Polly,  [Gage]  Barnard,  Julia, 
[Gilbert],  Sylvanus  and  Rev.  L.  L.  Gage  were  the  children  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Salmon  Gage.  Mr.  Gage  belonged  to  the  New  York  State  Militia. 
His  commisssons  signed  by  Governor  George  Clinton  are  still  in  the  fam- 
ily. He  was  ensign  in  1819,  lieutenant  in  1820,  and  captain  in  1821. 

The  first  persons  buried  were  on  land  east  of  Mr.  Mead's  house.  The 
first  record  of  deaths  were  Luther  Gage,  December  i,  1802,  and  Elias  Gage, 
who  died  in  1806.  Elisha  Gage,  the  pioneer,  moved  to  Pompey  in  1830. 

Ezra  Davis,  an  early  pioneer,  lived  where  Ellis  Smith  now  lives.  He 
had  three  sons  and  a  daughter.  The  daughter  married  Ezekiel  Carpenter. 
Wm.  Davis,  father  of  Mrs.  George  Kinney,  was  a  carpenter  and  helped 
build  Warren  Smith's  house  the  year  he  died,  1830.  Edmund  Davis 
married  Ada  Curtis  and  lived  in  the  old  home,  the  father  living  with  his 
son  Lyman,  in  the  house  once  occupied  by  Dr.  Mitchell.  Lyman  Davis 
afterward  lived  in  New  Woodstock,  and  was  a  jeweler.  His  wife  was 
Serena  Borden.  Edmund  Davis  had  six  children,  four  of  whom  are  living. 
Gilbert  and  Spencer  in  Minnesota,  Harriet  in  the  state  of  Washington  and 
Nora,  who  married  Walter  Ainsworth  and  is  also  living  in  the  west. 

When  Gilbert  Davis  was  a  child  he  was  troubled  with  croup.  His  moth- 
er, having  faith  in  the  tradition  that  placing  a  lock  of  his  hair  in  a  knot- 
hole in  the  house  would  prevent  the  disease,  did  so.  Gilbert  remembered 


Photos  by  W.  S.  Huntley 


Grave  of  Pioneer 
Peck  Monuments 


HISTORY  OF   NEW    WOODSTOCK.  33 

the  circumstance,  and  when  he  was  here  a  few  years  ago,  with  his  brother 
Spencer,  he  went  to  the  place  in  the  old  home,  found  the  hair  after  a  lapse 
of  fifty  years,  and  carried  it  away  with  him. 


Quaint  Epitaphs  from  the  Village  Cemetery. 


The  village  cemetery  contains  many  of  the  graves  of  the  pioneers. 
The  first  burials  recorded  were  five  in  1808.  The  stones  which  mark  their 
resting  places  are  black  with  age  and  in  some  instances  it  is  impossible  to 
decipher  the  quaint  epitaphs  inscribed  upon  thetn  long  ago  by  mourning 
friends.  Omitting  names,  a  few  of  these  interesting  inscriptions  have 
been  transcribed  for  these  pages.  They  are  worthy  of  preservation  and 
in  a  few  more  years,  as  is  already  the  case  in  some  instances,  will  be  entire- 
ly effaced.  The  stones  themselves  are  rapidly  crumbling  away.  The 
spelling,  punctuation  and  arrangement  have  been  exactly  copied  as  far  as 
possible. 

"Sleep  fweet  dust; 

Wait  the  Almighty's  will; 
Rife  with  the  just, 

And  be  an  angel  ftill. ' ' 


"Refrain  my  friends,  dry  up  your  tears; 
Here  I  must  lie,  till  Christ  appears; 
When  he  appears  then  I  shall  rise 
And  meet  my  Saviour  in  the  skies." 


"Look  O  my  friends  and  See, 
the  end  of  mortal  blifs  below, 

indure, 

thare  nothing  fure  that  will 
Sens  all  to  death  must  go. ' ' 


"This  grave  contains  a  youthful  bloom, 
Blown  out  at  morn,  cut  down  at  noon; 
A  brother,  a  son,  my  true-love  has  gone, 
And  left  me  in  this  world  to  mourn. ' ' 


HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


"He  touch'  d  our  hearts  with  groans  and  cries 
Now  in  silent  sleep  He  Lies.  '  ' 


time, 
"The  rofe  is  fragrant  but  it  fades  in 

its  Prime 

The  voilet  fweet  but  quickly  paft 
soon  decay 

White  lilies,  hang  their  heads  and 

away. 
And  whiter  fnow  in  minuets,  melt 

blooming  youth." 
Such,  and  fo  withering  is  our 


"Stop  passenger  awhile  and  see 
Whose  life  is  longest  yours  or  mine 
If  death  has  snatched  my  soul  today 
To-morrow  it  may  call  for  thyne. 
The  only  differance  then  will  be 
That  you  have  one  more  day  than 
me." 


"Farewell  my  gay  companions  all, 
That  view  my  shrowding  sod, 

Be  ready  for  that  solemn  call 
Prepare  to  meet  your  God. 
-nes." 

Affection  dedicates  these  li- 


"Off  from  my  fide  the  deareft  half 

is  torn 

The  reft  lives  bleeding,  and  but 
lives  to  mourn." 


HISTORY  OF   NEW   WOODSTOCK.  35 

"He  rushed  in  to  eternity, 

A  dreadful  God  to  view, 
He  neither  settled  his  affairs, 

Nor  bid  his  friends  adieu." 


"The  opening  heavens  around 
me  shine: 

With  beanies  of  sacred  blifs, 
If,  Jesus  shows;  his  mercy  mine; 

And  whispers  I  am  his. ' ' 


"Oh!  much  lamented  friend  that  sleepeth  here, 
Torn  from  my  bleeding  heart  in  life's  noon-day 
Thy  virtues  fair  demand  affections  tear 
Thy  once  loved  tender  wife  is  doomed  to  pay. 
But  who  with  me  shall  hold  thy  former  place 
Thine  image  what  new  friendship  can  efface 
May  I  not  murmer  but  tho'  left  alone 
Say,  Father  in  Heaven  thy  will  be  done." 


"Soon,  and  I  call. 

Sudden  was  my  fate, 
Prepare  too  meet  your  God ! 

Before  it  is  too,  late," 


'  'Diseases  come  and  go  at  His  bidding; 

And  that  which  did  me  arest; 

a 
It  was  a  Cansor  in  my  brest: 

A 

Amen,  even  so,  come  L,ord  Jesus." 


"His  mind  was  tranquil  and  serene, 
No  teror  in  his  looks  were  seen 

His  Saviour,  smild  dispeld  the  gloom 

o 
And  smoth.d  his  passage  to  the  tomb." 

A 


3  6  HISTORY  OF   NEW   WOODSTOCK. 

hear  thy  voice, 

"Oh  my  Jesus  why  was  I  made  to 
And  enter  whilst  there's  room, 
choice, 

Since  thousands  make  a  retched 
And  rather  starve  than  come. ' ' 


"Come  all  my  friends  as  you 
pafs  by, 

View  the  ground  where  your 
mother  duft  doth  lie, 
She  obtain 'd  a  hope,  quite  from 
her  youth, 

And  bles'd  her  God  in  the  dark 
shades  of  death. 


First  Baptist  Church  in  Cazenovia  at  New  Woodstock. 


On  December  8,  1800,  Rev.  James  Bacon,  of  Torrington,  Mass.,  Nathan 
Baker,  then  a  licentiate,  of  Pompey,  N.  Y.,  and  four  other  brethren  met 
in  "Cazenovia  Woodstock  Settlement,"  at  the  home  of  Ebenezer  Corbin, 
on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Mrs.  P.  S.  Buell,  and  agreed  to  hold  monthly 
conferences.  As  a  result,  six  months  later,  on  June  17,  1801,  a  council 
having  been  chosen  from  the  following  churches,  Pompey,  DeRuyter,  First 
and  second  Hamilton,  a  church  was  formed  with  sixteen  constitutent  mem- 
bers, ten  brethren  and  six  sisters  as  follows:  Elder  James  Bacon,  Samuel 
Tyler,  David  Smith,  Abiel  Ainsworth,  L,uther  Gage,  Marvel  Underwood, 
Mary  Tyler,  Anna  Corbin,  Betsey  Underwood,  Ruth  Chafee,  Warner  Goo- 
dell,  Solomon  Mirick,  Stephen  Chafe,  Abisnai  Underwood,  Lucy  Bugbee, 
and  Elizabeth  Mirick.  The  first  ten  had  previously  joined  the  monthly 
conference  by  letter,  and  the  remaining  six  joined,  after  being  baptized  by 
Elder  Bacon,  who  became  first  pastor.  Warner  Goodell  was  first  deacon. 
Fourteen  years  later  he  went  west  as  a  missionary.  Marvel  Underwood 
was  chosen  first  church  clerk,  serving  in  that  capacity  nine  years. 

In  1802,  the  first  church  in  the  town,  a  log  meeting  house,  eighteen  by 
twenty-four  feet,  was  built  at  West  Woodstock,  on  land  owned  now  by 


Photo  by  W.  S.  Huntley 


Photo  by  Alice  Freeborn 

Baptist  Church,  built  1815 
Interior  of  Baptist  Church 


HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK.  37 

Sylvanus  Gage.  This  socm  became  too  small,  and  a  frame  building  thirty 
feet  square  was  built  with  the  aid  of  the  Presbyterians.  The  site  was  on 
the  northwest  corner  of  land  owned  by  Jonathan  Smith,  a  pioneer  of  1795, 
whose  tavern,  now  called  the  Bell  house,  stood  a  few  rods  east  of  the  build- 
ing. 

In  1803,  Elder  Bacon,  who  was  over  seventy  years  of  age,  feeling  that 
the  work  was  more  than  he  could  endure,  persuaded  his  people  to  make  a 
change,  and  used  his  influence  in  obtaining  Elder  John  Peck,  then  a 
licentiate  of  Norwich,  N.  Y.,  to  come  as  pastor  in  1804.  He  was  ordained 
in  1806.  The  people  gave  him  seven  acres  of  land  and  built  him  a  house  on 
the  farm  now  owned  by  Edward  L.  Buell. 

In  1815,  John  Savage,  a  pioneer  who  came  in  1800,  gave  the  site  where 
the  present  church  stands.  Nathan  Smith  was  the  master  builder,  and 
was  assisted  by  Marvel  Underwood,  Eliakim  Clark,  Dyer  Lamb,  and 
others.  The  church  was  built  with  many  doubts  as  to  the  wisdom  of 
changing  the  location,  and  with  fears  that  pride  was  entering  in,  and  that 
God  could  no  longer  bless  their  work.  They  soon,  however,  had  cause 
for  rejoicing,  as  more  than  two  hundred  persons,  among  them  some  of  the 
most  active  Christians  whose  names  are  written  in  the  church  records, 
united  with  the  church  within  three  years.  The  raising  of  such  a  building 
was  a  great  undertaking  for  those  times.  Let  us  remember  that  the 
country  was  but  thinly  settled  and  much  of  it  covered  with  woods.  Some 
of  the  people  came  with  ox  teams  from  the  west  side  of  the  lake,  a  distance 
of  ten  miles,  and  worshipped,  as  has  been  aptly  said,  with  no  fire  except 
what  they  brought  in  their  hearts. 

Elder  Peck  was  pastor  thirty-one  years,  during  his  pastorate  baptiz- 
ing six  hundred  forty  as  members  of  the  church.  During  the  latter  half 
of  his  pastorate  he  did  missionary  work,  principally  for  the  Hamilton  Mis- 
sionary Society,  and  was  absent  at  one  time  nine  months,  his  place  being 
usually  supplied  by  Elder  Joseph  Coley.  In  1814,  Elders  John  Peck,  John 
Lawton,  of  North  Pitcher,  Peter  P.  Roots,  and  Daniel  Hascall  began  a 
monthly  magazine  which  was  called  "  The  Vehicle."  It  afterward  chang- 
ed to  "  The  Western  Baptist  Magazine,"  then  to  "  The  New  York  Baptist 
Register,"  and  finally  became  "The  Examiner."  In  1835  Mr.  Peck  re- 
signed and  devoted  his  time  wholly  to  missionary  work.  He  died  in  New 
York  City  in  1849,  aged  seventy  years.  His  remains  were  brought  to  New 
Woodstock,  and  buried  in  the  cemetery  near  the  church  where  he  labored 
so  many  years.  His  wife,  a  daughter,  and  three  sons  are  buried  near.  Two 
of  the  sous  were  ministers,  Philetus,  pastor  of  the  church  at  Owego,  and 
Linus  of  the  Hamilton  church.  Their  mother  died  in  1847,  two  weeks  be- 
fore they  did.  A  double  funeral  was  held  for  the  two  brothers. 

The  pastors  who  succeeded  Elder  Peck  were  as  follows:  Rev.  John 
Bishop,  1835-38;  Rev.  Daniel  Putnam,  1839-47;  Rev.  I.  X.  Brownson, 


38  HISTORY  OK    NEW  WOODSTOCK., 

1848-49;  Rev.  John  Fulton,  1850-58;  Rev.  Nathan  Mumford,  1859-66;  Rev. 
Butler  Morley,  1867-68;  Rev.  H.  Garlick,  1869;  Rev.  Perry  C.  Bentley, 
1870;  Rev.  A.  LeRoy,  1871-72;  Rev.  John  N.  Tolman,  1873-76;  Rev.  E.  P. 
Brigham,  1877-83;  Rev.  S.  B.  Leary,  1884-88;  Rev.  Frank  Irving  Roscoe, 
1889-91 ;  Rev.  F.  H.  Devine,  [supply]  1892  ;  Rev.  Charles  G.  Simmons, 
1893-98;  Rev.  W.  A.  Pugsley,  1899;  Rev.  E.  E.  Manning,  present  pastor. 
Rev.  Joshua  Clark,  a  seventh  day  Baptist  minister  in  DeRuyter,  supplied 
the  church  several  months  at  different  times. 

One  of  the  greatest  revivals  in  the  history  of  the  church  was  in  1831. 
Sixty-two  received  the  hand  of  fellowship  atone  time.  Among  the  number 
were  Win.  D.  Corbin,  Philetus  Peck  and  Elisha  L.  Abbott,  all  of  whom  be- 
came ministers,  Elisha  Abbott  and  his  wife,  Ann  Gardner,  going  as  mis- 
sionaries to  the  Karens  in  1835,  and  Mrs.  Cornelia  Heffron  Ward  went  to 
India  in  1850.  Rev.  Wm.  Corbin,  Rev.  George  Scott,  and  several  other 
young  men  went  west  as  Home  missionaries. 

The  church  has  recorded  1551  names  as  members.  Thirty-eight  in 
the  phraseology  of  the  olden  time,  "have  been  given  liberty  to  improve 
their  gifts  wherever  God  in  His  Providence  should  lead  them."  Twelve 
ministers  have  been  ordained.  Rev.  George  Scott  of  Nebraska,  seventy- 
nine  years  of  age,  and  Rev.  W  D.  Corbin  of  Syracuse,  eighty-seven,  are  the 
only  ones  living. 

A  Sabbath  School  was  organized  in  1804  and  was  a  summer  school  till 
1867.  Rev.  B.  Morley,  who  was  then  pastor,  suggested  that  the  school 
could  be  continued  through  the  winter.  It  did  not  "freeze  out"  as  some 
feared,  and  has  been  held  regularly  throughout  every  winter  since  that 
time.  The  sessions  of  the  Sunday  School  were  formerly  held  in  the  low- 
er part  of  the  Academy,  across  the  street  from  the  church. 

A  mite  society  was  formed  in  1812  with  Miss  Hannah  Lathrop,  presi- 
dent, Elizabeth  Savage,  secretary,  and  Josephine  Corbin,  treasurer.  It 
still  exists  as  the  Baptist  Ladies'  Aid  Soaiety. 

In  1820  the  village  church  at  Cazenovia  was  formed  and  called  the 
Second  Baptist  Church  of  Cazenovia.  This  greatly  reduced  the  member- 
ship of  the  parent  church,  ninety  members  being  dismissed  out  of  two 
hundred. 

In  1829  the  subject  of  Speculative  Free  Masonry  troubled  the  church. 
Five  of  the  members  who  were  Masons  cheerfully  relinquished  their  con- 
nection with  the  order  from  a  sense  of  duty  to  God  and  for  the  sake  of 
unity.  Benjamin  Enos  alone  refused  and  nearly  two  years  later  the  hand 
of  fellowship  was  withdrawn  from  him.  In  a  few  years,  however,  Mr.  Enos 
gave  up  Masonry,  and  was  restored  to  the  church. 

A  little  description  of  the  church  and  some  reminiscences  may  be  of 
interest.  When  the  church  was  built  in  1815  there  were  winding  stairs  to 
reach  the  pulpit,  which  was  on  "a  high  platform  sustained  by  pillars. 


Elder  John  Peck 
Rev.  George"Scott 


Elder  Joseph  Coley 
Elisha  L.  Abbott,  Missionary  to  Burmah 


HISTORY  OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  39 

Underneath  the  pulpit  was  the  deacon's  seat.  The  pews  were  high  and 
nearly  square  and  closed  by  a  door  fastened  with  a  button.  A  gallery  ex- 
tended around  the  west,  south  and  east  sides.  Two  rows  of  long  seats 
went  around  the  sides  of  the  gallery,  and  three  rows  on  the  south  side 
where  the  singers  sat.  Box  seats  were  near  the  windows  on  the  east  and 
west  sides  of  the  gallery.  A.  box  stove  was  introduced  after  a  time,  a  plat- 
form being  built  for  it  on  the  top  of  one  of  the  pews  near  the  center  of  the 
house.  The  next  improvement  was  a  bass  viol,  which  was  a  great  grief  to 
some  of  the  people  who  disliked  a  fiddle  in  the  meeting  house.  The 
choir  numbered  twenty  or  even  thirty,  and  did  the  singing,  not  even  the 
minister  joining.  Marvel  Underwood  was  one  of  the  early  leaders,  pitch- 
ing the  tune  with  a  fork.  The  congregation  arose  during  the  singing  and 
turned  their  backs  to  the  pulpit  in  order  to  face  the  choir.  Atcommunion 
the  pastor  "lined"  the  hymn,  that  is  he  read  two  lines  and  all  sang  them 
then  read  two  lines  more  and  the  people  sang  again  and  so  on  till  the 
hymn  was  finished.  The  collection  boxes  were  fastened  to  the  end  of  a 
stick  four  feet  in  length  and  resembled  the  modern  corn-popper.  In 
prayer  time  every  one  stood,  old  and  young,  no  matter  how  long  the 
prayer.  In  hot  weather  if  a  person  became  sleepy  he  arose  and  stood  a 
while.  Sometimes  two  or  three  would  be  standing  at  a  time.  At  funerals 
the  mourners  were  "addressed."  If  the  deceased  were  the  head  of  a 
family,  the  wife  must  stand  and  be  talked  to  for  several  minutes,  then  the 
children  were  consoled  and  counseled  in  the  most  pathetic  language  and 
so  on  until  all  the  relatives  were  addressed.  During  the  pastorate  of  Rev. 
Daniel  Putnam,  Daniel  Alvord,  aged  85  and  Anna  his  wife,  aged  Si,  united 
with  the  church.  Owing  to  their  extreme  age  they  were  baptized  near 
their  home  at  Shed's  Corners. 

In  1874,  during  the  pastorate  of  Rev.  J.  N.  Tolman,  the  church  was 
re-modeled  to  its  present  condition,  and  a  chapel  added.  A  re-union  was 
held  at  its  completion.  Mary  Fiske,  the  granddaughter  of  Elder  John 
Peck,  gave  the  communion  service  upon  that  occasion,  which  is  still  in 
use.  Miss  Anna  Lyon  gave  her  entire  income  for  that  year  to  the  church, 
the  vestibule  being  fitted  up  with  the  money  she  contributed.  When  Rev. 
S.  B.  Leary  was  pastor,  in  1886-87,  a  kitchen  was  built  on  by  the  Ladies' 
Aid  Society. 

The  centennial  of  this  church  was  celebrated  June  16  and  17, 1901.  At 
the  Roll  Call  one  hundred  forty  names  of  members  were  called,  one  hun- 
dred thirteen  responding,  personally  or  by  letter.  The  oldest  person  pres- 
ent was  Mrs.  Elvira  Slocum,  aged  ninety-seven.  Mrs.  E.  D.  Cruttendeu, 
who  was  born  the  day  the  present  church  was  raised,  and  who  became  a 
member  seventy  years  ago,  was  able  to  attend  and  enjoy  the  two  days' 
services.  Rev.  E.  P.  Brigham,  the  oldest  living  ex-pastor,  was  present, 
also  Rev.  S.  B.  Leary  and  Rev.  F.  H.  Devine,  former  pastors. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


History  of  the  Methodist  Church. 


The  Methodist  class  of  New  Woodstock  was  organized  in  1830,  and 
was  connected  with  Pompey  circuit.  The  first  members  of  this  new, 
yet  prosperous  organization,  were  Lyman  Davis  and  wife,  N.  Abbott  and 
wife,  brother  James  Allen,  and  sisters  Samantha  Corbin  and  A.  Merrick. 
Religious  services  were  held  for  a  time  in  the  school  house  on  West 
Woodstock  hill,  then  also  called  Bull's  Corners.  A  "meeting  house,"  so 
called  out  of  deference  to  the  custom  of  that  time,  was  soon  built  on  a  site 
a  few  rods  east  of  the  school  house  and  was  used  until  about  1838.  The 
preachers  upon  the  circuit  at  that  time  were  Elders  F.  Benjamin,  B.  Pad- 
dock, and  W.  Batchelor. 

The  present  house  of  worship  was  built  in  the  village  of  New  Wood- 
stock in  1836,  and  although  in  an  unfinished  state,  was  used  during  the 
summer  of  1840.  Services  have  been  regularly  held  in  it  since  Novem- 
ber, 1840,  except  at  times  when  it  has  been  undergoing  repairs.  During 
the  labors  of  Rev.  R.  H.  Clark,  in  1856  the  church  was  enlarged  by  adding 
ten  feet  to  the  rear.  A  bell  was  purchased  and  placed  in  the  tower  of  the 
church  during  the  labors  of  Rev.  James  Outsell. 

In  1875,  when  M.  Z.  Haskins  was  pastor,  extensive  repairs  were  made 
amounting  to  $3,700.  At  that  time  the  building  was  lowered,  and  the  use 
of  the  basement  for  the  class  room  and  prayer  meeting  discontinued.  The 
communion  service  now  in  use  was  presented  at  that  time  by  Mr.  R.  R. 
Churchward,  who  had  previously  removed  from  New  Woodstock  to  Fabius. 
The  year  before,  while  the  Baptist  church  was  undergoing  repairs,  the 
Methodists  cordially  gave  them  the  privilege  of  using  their  church.  The 
opportunity  to  return  the  favor  was  now  given  and  accepted,  showing  a 
better  spirit  than  in  1836,  when  one  Baptist  brother  refused  to  pay  his  tax 
toward  paying  for  the  "conference  haus"  because  thechurch  did  not  allow 
their  Methodist  friends  to  hold  meetings  in  it,  therefore  he  did  not  wish 
to  pay  for  a  "haus"  that  Christians  could  not  occupy. 


.  L.  R.  Minor 

Methodist  Church 


Plwto  by  Mrs  E.  W.  Kellogg 

M.  E.  Church,  Interior  on  Children's  Day 


HISTORY  OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  41 

In  1889,  the  Methodist  Ladies'  Aid  Society  added  a  kitchen.  In  1900, 
a  legacy  of  $1,000,  left  by  John  W.,  son  of  Marcus  L.  Underwood,  was  re- 
ceived from  his  wife,  of  Grant  Park,  111.  Nearly  $500  of  the  amount  has 
been  used  in  the  interior  of  the  building,  and  probably  no  village  of  its 
size  in  Madison  County  possesses  as  beautiful  and  attractive  a  Methodist 
Episcopal  Church  edifice. 

A  few  changes  may  be  noted  in  the  church  in  connection  with  other 
charges.  As  the  work  advanced  and  the  charges  grew  in  strength  and 
ability,  New  Woodstock  and  Delphi  became  separate  charges.  It  has  twice 
assumed  the  title  of  station;  and  twice  been  connected  with  Sheds  Corners 
to  which  place  it  now  stands  related. 

In  1844  the  church  belonged  to  Oneida  Conference  which  became  a 
part  of  Central  New  York  Conference  in  1869.  During  seventy  years  of 
existence,  it  has  had  sixteen  presiding  elders  and  thirty-two  pastors. 
Rev.  John  Nason  is  the  first  pastor  mentioned  and  was  located  here  in 
1842,  building  and  living  in  the  house  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Mrs. 
Andrew  Wightman.  The  pastors  following  Rev.  Mr.  Nason  appear  in 
their  order:  E.  P.  Beebe,  Wesley  Fox,  Andrew  Peck,  Charles  Blakeslee, 
John  H.  Hall,  T.  C.  Wiuslow,  Wm.  E.  York,  M.  W.  Ripley,  T.  B.  Rock- 
well, Richard  H.  Clark,  L.  C.  Rogers,  James  Gutsell,  Walter  Jerome, 
Joseph  Maxwell,  B.  W.  Hamilton,  Hubbard  Fox,  W.  C.  McDonald, 
Alexander  Harroun,  Theodore  F.  Clark,  H.  W.  Williams,  M.  Z.  Haskins, 
W.  D.  Fox,  T.  F.  Harris,  A.  C.  Smith,  O.  G.  H.  Phillips,  C.  E.  Hoag, 
Virgil  W.  Mattoon,  W.  S.  Lyon.  S.  F.  Pearse,  George,  [supply,]  and  S.  S. 
Pratt,  pastor  at  the  present  time. 

Great  revivals  have  been  enjoyed  at  different  times  in  the  history  of 
the  church  among  the  most  glorious  being  those  in  which  B.  Paddock,  W. 
Batchellor,  George  Peck,  D.  D.,  and  the  late  Bishop  J.  T.  Peck  did  efficient 
work.  The  first  church  meeting  recorded  as  being  held  in  New  Wood- 
stock was  on  June  27,  1838,  L,yman  F.  Readington,  chairman.  Lyman 
Davis  clerk.  The  latter  served  as  clerk  continuously  for  twenty-five 
years.  He  was  also  Sunday  .school  superintendent  for  many  years. 
January  2,  1841,  Japhet  Curtis  was  elected  "keeper  of  the  key."  In  1842 
he  had  the  same  office,  and  his  duties  were  to  sweep  the  house  and  build 
the  fires  for  the  sum  of  eight  dollars  per  year.  The  following  year  the  job 
of  warming,  lighting,  and  sweeping  the  house,  the  church  furnishing 
wood  and  candles,  was  let  to  the  lowest  bidder.  Harvey  Ellis  received 
the  position  at  eight  dollars.  Ralph  Knight  and  W.  Ely  Gunn  are  others 
who  served  as  sextons  in  the  early  years. 

Some  of  the  prominent  members  in  the  past  were  Marcus  L.  and  John 
L,.  Underwood,  Henry  Reeve,  Mansier  G.  Thomas  and  wife,  the  latter  re- 
membered for  her  remarkably  devoted  religious  life;  their  sons,  Rev. 


42  HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

Joseph  L.  Thomas,  now  in  New  York  City,  and  the  late  Mansier  C. 
Thomas,  Cyrus  Scott,  and  many  others. 

The  present  officers  in  the  church  are  the  following:  W.  S.  Huntley, 
recorder  and  clerk;  George  Slocum,  treasurer;  Adon  Allard,  sexton;  C.  A. 
Fox,  chairman  of  board  of  trustees. 

The  officers  of  the  Sunday  school  are:  Albert  Wheelock,  superinten- 
dent; W.  S.  Huntley,  assistant  superintendent;  Florence  Hendee,  secre- 
tary; R.  J.  Murdock,  treasurer;  Mabel  Morgan,  missionary  superintendent. 

The  first  Methodist  Parsonage  stood  on  Main  street  west  of  where  the 
railroad  now  is.  The  house  was  sold  for  $i,8ooin  1872  at  the  time  the 
railroad  was  built.  It  was  removed  to  Bank  street,  and  is  now  the  re- 
sidence of  John  Blakeslee. 

The  present  parsonage  is  on  Pearl  street.  The  church  property,  in- 
cluding parsonage,  is  worth  $5,000. 

The  Ladies'  Aid  Society  connected  with  the*  church  has  the  following 
officers:  President,  Mrs.  C.  A.  Buckingham;  Vice  President,  Mrs.  A.  D. 
Smith;  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Mrs.  S.  S.  Pratt. 

There  is  a  flourshing  society  of  Christian  Endeavor  which  meets 
every  Sunday  evening. 


New  Woodstock  Academy  and  Other  Schools. 


A  select  school  was  incorporated  by  legislature  as  New  Woodstock 
Academy,  May  2,  1834.  The  following  are  extracts  from  a  prospectus  and 
catalogue  of  this  "Academical  and  Manual  Labor  Institution,  for  the  ses- 
sion ending  March  10,  1837." 


LOCATION. 


This  institution  is  situated  in  the  retired  but  pleasant,  healthful  and 
flourishing  village  of  New  Woodstock,  in  the  town  of  Cazenovia,  county  of 
Madison,  state  of  New  York  ;  six  miles  south  of  Cazenovia  village,  on  the 
main  stage  route  from  Ithaca  to  Utica  ;  about  forty  miles  west  of  the  latter 
city  ;  sixteen  miles  west  of  Hamilton,  twenty  four  miles  east  of  Homer. 
The  institution  is  surrounded  by  a  dense  and  wealthy  population,  under 
the  influence  of  a  well  organized  moral  and  religious  society. 


HISTORY  OF   NEW   WOODSTOCK.  43 


TERMS   OF  TUITION. 

Common  English  branches,  per  quarter,         -        -  $3.00 

Natural  Sciences,  &c.,         -  4.00 

Mathematics,  Languages,  &c.,         ....  5.00 
Musick,  Drawing,  and  Painting,  extra. 

FACULTY. 

Rev.  John  F.  Bishop,  superintendent  and  lecturer  on  Moral  Science, 
and  Civil  Polity.  Joel  Whiting,  A.  B.,  Professor  of  Mathematicks,  Lan- 
guages and  Rhetorick.  David  Pease,  Professor  of  Natural  Phylosophy, 
Chemistry,  Vocal  and  Instrumental  Musick.  Bradley  Camp,  Assistant  and  • 
Teacher.  Julius  W.  Hatch,  Lecturer  on  Astronomy.  William  W.  Kinne, 
M.  D.,  Lecturer  on  Natural  History,  and  Human  Physiology.  Miss  H.  M. 
Rice,  Preceptress  and  Teacher  of  Drawing  and  Painting.  Miss  A.  Kinne, 
Teacher  of  Musick  and  Ornamental  Penmanship.  Miss  S.  Crandall, 
Assistant  Teacher. 

TRUSTEES. 

S.  P.  Collins,  President ;  R.  R.  Jenkins,  Treasurer ;  John  Morse,  John 
Fisk,  Isaac  Morse,  William  Coley,  William  Savage,  Samuel  Walker,  Har- 
vey Morris,  Seth  Savage,  David  Smith.  C.  Coats,  J.  Smith,  Secretary. 

A  list  of  twenty-one  names  composing  an  Advisory  and  Visiting  Com- 
mittee, follows :  The  towns  of  Cazenovia,  Fabius,  Manlius,  Syracuse,  Fen- 
ner,  Eaton,  Hamilton,  Petorboro,  Smithville,  LeRoy  Henderson,  Adams, 
Watertown,  Pulaski,  and  Cortland  are  represented,  Gerrit  Smith,  Esq., 
Rev.  O.  Montague,  Prof.  Eaton  and  Prof.  Taylor,  Hon  B.  Beckwith,  and 
Hon.  J.  Pettit,  being  among  the  number. 

Some  of  the  textbooks  in  use  were:  Greek,  Fiske's  Grammar,  Greek 
Exercises,  Jacob's  Reader,  and  New  Testament ;  French,  Levizac's  Gram- 
mar, Boyer's  Dictionary,  LeBrun's  Telemaque,  Tradacteur  Francois, 
Bolomar's  Phrases ;  Latin,  Latin  Lessons,  the  Reader;  Virgil,  Exercises, 
Cicero's  Orations,  and  Adams'  Roman  Antiquities  ;  Mathematicks, 
Grund's  Day's,  and  Smyth's  Algebra,  Geometry,  Sperical  Trigonometry, 
Davies*  Legendre,  Gibson's  andDavies'  Surveying  ;  Arithmetick,  Smith's, 
Adams'  and  Emerson's  North  American  ;  English  Grammar,  Smith's  ; 
Geography,  Smith's  and  Malte  Brun's  ;  Botany,  Mrs.  Lincoln's  ;  Phil- 
osophy, Grund's,  Olmsted's  and  Comstock's  ;  Chemistry,  Comstock's  ; 
History,  Robin's  Outlines  ;  Rhetoric,  Newman's  ; Logic,  Whateley's;  Civil 
Polity,  Say's  ;  Moral  Science,  WTayland's. 

A  stringent  code  of  laws  were  under  the  following  heads:  I.  Relating 
to  membership.  II.  Relating  to  decorum.  III.  Special  requirements. 
IV.  Relating  to  Prohibitions. 

The  following  is  the  list  of  students  with  their  residences  : 


44 


HISTORY  OF   NEW   WOODSTOCK. 


STUDENTS. 

MALES. 

MALES. 

J.  Bishop, 

Cazenovia. 

P.  H.  Lansing, 

Fenner. 

G.  E.  Beckwith, 

" 

T.  Morris, 

Cazenovia. 

A.  Backus, 

" 

N.  Maddock, 

Peterboro. 

A.  Blakeslee, 

Fenner. 

A.  Messinger, 

Lincklaen. 

R.  C.  Beckwith, 

Cazenovia. 

B.  W.  Miller, 

New  Haven. 

A.  Barnes, 

Nelson. 

E.  Matthewson, 

Peterboro. 

R.  Bramer, 

Cazenovia. 

B.  W.  Mory, 

Cazenovia. 

J.  Bodle, 

Mecklenburg. 

Osgood, 

Adams. 

A.  Surges, 

Cazenovia. 

F.  C.  Overton, 

Henderson. 

B.  G.  Collins, 

" 

G.  Pool, 

Nelson. 

G.  N.  Collins, 

" 

J.  Philips, 

Fenner. 

E.  Cleaveland, 

" 

S.  Reeve, 

Cazenovia. 

W.  Cole, 

Henderson. 

Joseph  Rice, 

W.  Corbin, 

Cazenovia. 

J.  Reeve, 

Cazenovia. 

W.  Cotes, 

" 

Rhodes, 

Madison. 

Z.  Cadogan, 

" 

S.  Smith, 

Cazenovia. 

C.  Curtis, 

" 

A.  Smith, 

" 

Lewis  Dodge, 

Vernon. 

J.  Smith, 

Fenner. 

J.  C.  Dean, 

Cazenovia. 

L-  Savage, 

Cazenovia. 

J.  Dryer, 

" 

Charles  Sanderson, 

Westmoreland. 

L-  Damon, 

" 

W.  Savage, 

Cazenovia. 

D.  J.  Downer, 

Peterboro. 

G.  Scott, 

>' 

Z.  Y.  Ensign, 

Nelson. 

E.  A.  Simmons, 

" 

C.  D.  Ensign, 

" 

E.  Simmons, 

«> 

C.  Frizell, 

Cazenovia. 

J.  C.  Stowell, 

Cazenovia. 

N.  Graves, 

Nelson. 

L-  E.  Swan, 

" 

A.  H.  Gifford, 

Cazenovia. 

M.  Tucke, 

Fenner. 

S.  Greenman, 

" 

J.  Van  Horn, 

Peterboro. 

G.  Greenman, 

Cazenovia. 

A.  R.  Washburn, 

•  • 

D.  Greenman, 

" 

J.  Warren. 

Cazenovia. 

G.  Jenkins, 

" 

W.  S.  Wright, 

Peterboro. 

C.  J.  Johnson, 

" 

D.  Walker, 

Cazenovia. 

O.  Jay  cox. 

Mecklenburg. 

G.  Webber, 

" 

M.  J.  Jaycox, 

" 

Peter  Voris, 

Lysander. 

H.  Kinne, 

B.  Virgil, 

Cazenovia. 

S.  Lindley, 

FEMALES. 

Jane  Bentley. 

Cazenovia. 

Charlotte  Jenkins, 

Cazenovia. 

L.  Benedict, 

New  Woodstock. 

Mary  Jenkins, 

•  I 

Sarah  Barnard, 

Cazenovia. 

Harriet  LaSure, 

DeRuyter. 

Ruby  Ann  Cotes, 

" 

Sophia  Lathrop, 

Cazenovia. 

Minerva  S.  Cotes, 
Abigail  B.  Cotes, 

New  Woodstock. 

Helen  Lathrop, 
Margaret  Mcrris, 

New  Woodstock. 

Martha  Cole, 

Henderson. 

'  Elizabeth  Nickerson, 

Cazenovia. 

Angeliue  A.  Cleaveland, 

New  Woodstock. 

Harriet  Newton, 

Ellen  Coley, 
Cornelia  Curtis, 

Cazenovia. 

Lucy  P.  Overton, 
Harriet  E.  Pettit, 

Henderson. 
Fabius. 

Cornelia  Clark, 

New  Woodstock. 

Mary  A.  Pettit, 

Amy  Downer, 
Sarah  M.  Dexter, 

Peterboro. 
Erieville. 

Abagail  A.  Roice, 
Lucinda  M.  Reed, 

New  Woodstock. 

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HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK.  45 


STUDENTS. 

Lucinda  Everts, 

Erieville. 

Harriet  N.  Reed, 

Cazenovia. 

Sally  Ann  Ensign, 

Nelson. 

Mary  A.  Rice, 

Diana  Ferry, 

New  Woodstock. 

Lucretia  S.  Rice, 

Cazenovia. 

Mary  Ann  Fisk, 

Cazenovia. 

Catharine  Stevens, 

New  Woodstock. 

H.  Maria  Griggs, 

" 

Olive  Stowell, 

" 

Julia  Gage, 

" 

Jane  Savage, 

Cazenovia. 

Polly  Gage, 

" 

Delany  Savage, 

" 

Charlotte  Goodell, 

" 

Elizabeth  Savage, 

" 

Julia  Greenmaii, 

New  Woodstock. 

Almy  Taylor, 

" 

Malvina  A.  Greenman, 

" 

Caroline  Thrasher, 

" 

Julia  Hendee, 

Cazenovia, 

Charlotte  Ann  Wright, 

Pet  erboro. 

Harriet  Hendee, 

" 

PhebeA.  Warren, 

DeRuyter. 

Elizabeth  Hendee, 

" 

Clarissa  Walker, 

New  Woodstock. 

Males, 

72           Females, 

52           Total, 

124 

The  teachers  in  later  years  Were  Truman  Crandall,  Newton  Mann, 
Albert  Kenyon,  Francis  M.  Jones,  Carrie  Savage,  Hattie  Bell,  Dwight 
Moffett,  Emma  Burdick,  Addie  Tillotson,  Elizabeth  Atkinson,  Mary  Coin, 
'Allen  H.  Forte,  Rev.  and  Mrs.  I.  K.  Brownson,  and  Mrs.  Humphrey,  Mr. 
Montague,  Mr.  Pease,  now  a  celebrated  physician,  Joel  Whiting.  Miss  Mary 
Gibbs,  and  Mrs.  Dr.  Bly  were  early  teachers.  D.  D.  Chase,  L.  I/.  Ainsworth, 
Minerva  Rockwell,  Alice  Gardner  and  James  Fenner  were  also  teachers 
at  different  periods.  Amos  Dodge  was  a  teacher  in  1808-9. 

The  school  at  West  Woodstock,  years  ago,  had  an  attendance  of  more 
than  one  hundred  pupils  at  a  time.  Elisha  Abbott  and  Philetus  Peck  were 
among  the  teachers. 


Revolutionary  Soldiers. 


Jonathan   Pollard,  Major  Rinaldo  Webber,   William   Lucas,    Gideon 
Anthony. 

SOLDIERS  OF  1812. 

Captain   Marvel  Underwood,  Eliakim   Clark,  Captain  James   Leary, 
William  Smith,  Levi  Bacon,  Levi  Burgess,  John  Savage,  Jr.,  Seth  Savage. 

MEMORIAL  LIST  OF  SOLDIERS. 
Lyman  Hunt,  2nd  N.  Y.  C.,  Died  May  3,  1864. 
John  Ferguson,  2nd  N.  Y.  C.     Died  January  20,  1890. 
Samuel  Bulkley,  Co.  F.,  N.  Y.  C.     Died  April  17,  1876. 
Sergeant  Herbert  E.  Cotes,  Co.  I,  8th  Reg.  Kansas.    Died  Sept.  24, 1862. 
Charles  H.  Hart,  3rd  N.  Y.  C.,  afterward  ist  lieutenant  in  the  U.  S. 
Colored  Cavalry.     Died  June  29,  18-5. 


46  HISTORY  OF    NEW   WOODSTOCK. 

Milton  B.  Hart,  drummer  in  76th  N.  Y.  I.     Died  April  8,  1882. 

Joseph  Mason,  I2th  N.  Y.  I. 

George  Vice,  Co.  E,  22nd  N.  Y.  C. 

William  Walker,  Co.  E,  22nd  N.  Y.  C. 

James  Carpenter,  Co.  E,  22nd  N.  Y.  C. 

Seth  Ackley,  Co.  H,  35th  N.  Y.  C. 

Lyman  Wheeler,  Co.  I,  6ist  N.  Y.  I.     Died  February  14,  1863. 

James  A.  Wheeler,  Co.  I,  6ist  N.  Y.  I.     Died  May  2,  1864. 

Benjamin  Wheeler,  Co.  I,  6ist  N.  Y.  I.     Died  in  1899. 

Frank  Cole,  Co.  G,  6ist  N.  Y.  I.     Died  July  2,  1863. 

R.  B   Bentley,  Co.  K,  ii4th  N.  Y.  I.  Died  July  29,  1863. 

Harvey  Clark,  "  "     Sept.  19,  1863. 

Charles  Knight,         "  "  "     Dec.   17,  1863. 

Harvey  Daley,  "  March  22,  1864. 

Lucian  F.  Barnard,     "  "  Killed    April    9,1864, 

W.  E.  Savage,  "  "  Died  Oct.    27,  1864. 

Charles  Gorton,         "  "  "     Dec.     3,  1864. 

Giles  E.  Woodin,       " 

Abel  P.  Pangborn,     "  "    Sept.  17,  1864. 

Oliver  M.  Slocum,     "  "  "     Mar.   19,  1887. 

ChaunceyJ.Cook,     "  "      Dec.   13,  1895. 

Corporal  Marco  P.  Crandall,  Co.  C,  Ii4th  N.  Y.  I.     Enlisted  in  De- 

Ruyter,  buried  in  New  Woodstock  cemetery  in  1900. 
Henry  A.  Evarts,  Co.  K,  H4th  N.  Y.  I.    Died  in  Erieville. 
Henry  A.  Gifford,  Co.  K,  H4th  N.  Y.  I.     Died  suddenly  of  malarial 

fever  September  20,  1863. 
Willard  M.  Hudson,  Co.  K,  H4th. 

Harvey  B.  Chapman,  Co.  F,  I7gth  Reg't.   N.  Y.   S.  V.     Enlisted  at 

Trumansburg.    Wounded  in  battle  at  Petersburg,  gun  shot  wound 

in  right  leg,  and  canister  shot  wound  in  left  leg.     Died  December 

15,  i899. 

VETERANS   NOW  LIVING   IN  NEW  WOODSTOCK   WHO   ENLISTED   HERE    AND 

ELSEWHERE. 
Cyrenus  A.  Rogers,  Co.  K,  ii4th  N.  Y.  I.     Severely  wounded  in  thigh 

at  Cedar  Creek. 
Sydney  Calkins,  Co.  K,  N.  Y.  I.     Wounded  in  hand  atOpequan.     Lost 

a  finger. 

Albert  N.  Wheelock,  Corporal,  Co.  H.  i  i4th.  Wounded  in  neck  at 
Bisland  and  detailed  for  duty  in  Com.  Dep't  Brig.  Hd.  Qrs.  En- 
listed at  DeRuyter. 

Benjamin  Allen,  Co.  H.  Severely  wounded  in  left  arm  at  Opequau. 
Enlisted  at  DeRuyter. 


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Merril  C.  Wood,  Co.  A,  isyth  N.  Y.  V.  I.     Enlisted  at  DeRuyter. 
Charles  Hitchcock,  Co.  F,  157^1  N.  Y.  V.  I.     Enlisted  at  Smyrna. 
H.    Deloss   Burdick,  2nd  Lieut.,  Co.   D,  44th  N.  Y.  V.     Enlisted   at 
Albany. 

George   Loveland,   Co.  E,  9th  N.   Y.    Heavy   Artillery.     Enlisted  at 

Skaneateles. 

John  Burkey,  Co.  C,  3rd  N.  Y.  Light  Artillery.     Enlisted  at  Syracuse. 
Truman  Bacon,  Co.  I,  iSsth  N.  Y.  V.  I.     Enlisted  at  DeRuyter. 
Charles  Byer,  Co.  F,  i76th  Regt.     Enlisted  at  Morrisville. 
Ellis  Z.  Smith,  Co.  G,  ;6th  Regt.     Enlisted  at  Cuyler. 
Nathan  Grover,  2nd  N.  Y.  C.     Enlisted  at  Pompey. 
H.  Burdette  Griffith,  Co.  F,  ;6th  R.,  Co.  K.  I4?th  N.  Y.  I.    Drafted  at 

Georgetown. 

Ezekiel  Harris,  Co.  F,  isyth  Regt.     Enlisted  at  DeRuyter. 
Julius  H.  Clark,  ist  Lieut.  Co.  H.  8ist  Reg.  N.  Y.  V.     Enlisted  at  Utica. 
William  White,  iSsth  N.  Y.  I.     Enlisted  at  Fabius. 


John  Manchester  enlisted  at  Syracuse  in  the  Old  Twelfth  N.  Y.,  and 
has  a  bronze  medal  with  the  inscription  on  the  face:  "First  Volunteer 
Regiment  Organized  in  1861,  in  the  State  of  New  York."  On  the  reverse 
side  the  battles  in  which  the  regiment  participated  are  given  as  follows  : 
Blackburn's  Ford,  First  Bull  Run,  Yorktown,  Hanover  Court  House, 
Games'  Mill,  Malvern  Hill,  Second  Bull  Run,  Antietam,  Fredericksburg. 

Herrick  Nichols,  enlisted  at  Fabius  in  the  I4gth  Regiment,  N.  Y.  Vol., 
Co.  E.  He  was  shot  in  the  right  lung  at  Chancellorsville,  Va.  He  was 
afterward  in  the  following  battles:  Resaca,  Ga.,  Dallas,  Kenesaw  Mt., 
Kulps  House,  Peach  Tree  Creek,  Atlanta,  Sherman's  March  to  the  Sea, 
Savannah,  Campaign  of  the  Carolinas,  Averysboro,  Beutonville,  Bennet's 
House. 
VETERANS  OF  THE  CIVIL  WAR  AND  THEIR  PRESENT  POSTOFFICE  ADDRESSES 

Schuyler  P.  Bulkley,  35th  N.  Y.  I.,  Cortland,  N.  Y. 

George  Bulkey,  3d  N.  Y.  C.,        -  Cazenovia,  N.  Y. 

Henry  Stowell,  3d  N.  Y.  C.  Cazenovia,  N.  Y. 

Francis  Stowell,  3d  N.  Y.  C.,      -  Binghamton,  N.  Y. 

George  Hart,  3d  N.  Y.  C.,  New  Brunswick,  N.  J. 

Erastus  S.  Carpenter,  2d  Lieut.  Co.  K,  H4th  N.  Y.  I. 

.  Webster  City,  Iowa. 

Delavan  House,  ist  Sergt.,  originally  a  private.  Pro- 
moted Corporal  September  '64  ;  promoted  October 
'64,  for  gallant  conduct;  promoted  istSergt.  Feb- 
ruary '65,  Chicago,  111. 

Charles  J.  Abbott,  Co.  K,  H4th  N.  Y.  I.  Transferred 

to  V.  R.  C.  at  Franklin,  La.,  March  '64.  -  Clifford,  N.  Y. 


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HISTORY   O^   NEW    WOODSTOCK. 


Euos  Cook,  Co.  K,  H4th  N.  Y.  I.  Wounded  at  Cedar 

Creek  in  left  forearm,  Horseheads,  N.  Y. 

John  Cadogan,  Jr.,  Co.  K,  i  4th  N.  Y.  I.  Wounded 

in  leg  at  Opequan,  Erieville,  N.  Y. 

Spencer  E.  Davis,  Co.  K,  H4th  N.  Y.  I.  In  all  the 
battles  except  Cedar  Creek.  Was  then  on  duty 
at  Winchester,  Va.,  St.  Louis  Park,  Minn. 

Horace  R.  Graham,  Co.  K,  ii4th  N.  Y.  I.  Was  left- 
general  guide  over  a  year.  Is  now  guide  in  North 
Woods. 

Franklin  Hammond,  Co.  K,  H4th  N.  Y.  I.  Taken 
prisoner  in  '63,  and  paroled.  Discharged  for  dis- 
ability and  re-enlisted.,  Homer,  N.  Y. 

Henry  G.  Dixon,  Co.  K,  U4th  N.  Y.  I.  Promoted 
Corporal  '64.  Severely  wounded  in  thigh  at 
Opequan,  Delphi,  N.  Y. 


A.  O.  U.  W. 


The  New  Woodstock  Lodge,  No.  191,  A.  O.  U.  W.,  was  organized 
December,  1878.  The  charter  members  were  :  N.  P.  Warner,  T.  F.  Hunt- 
ley,  S.  P.  Bulkley,  E.  R.  Cunningham,  M.  C.  Wood,  E.  B.  Smith,  W.  H. 
Freeborn,  C.  A.  Lownsberry,  R.  J.  Sunderlin,  R.  Morse,  C.  A.  Fox,  M.  O. 
Smith,  E.  D.  Hulbert,  C.  M.  Lownsberry,  C.  K.  Underwood,  and  Lester 
LaMunion.  The  present  membership  is  forty. 

Bowman  Stanley,  of  Cazenovia,  G.  S.  Poole,  Dr.  William  Davis,  and 
H.  B.  Chapman  were  members  of  the  Woodstock  lodge  at  the  time  of  their 
death,  and  their  families  each  received  an  insurance  of  $2,000.  Dr.  N.  P. 
Warner  and  T.  F.  Huntley  were  members  of  lodges  in  Syracuse  at  the 
time  of  their  death. 


Maccabees. 


New  Woodstock  tent  No.  324,  Knights  of  the  Maccabees  of  the  World 
was  instituted  by  Deputy  Grt.  Commander  Porter,  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y., 
September  21,  1894,  with  sixteen  sir  knights.    The  first  officers  were  : 
Past  Commander.  H.  A.  Brown 

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Record  Keeper,  S.  H.  Stevens 

Finance  Keeper,  A.  B.  Maxson 

Chaplain,  R.  H.  Wood 

Physician,  S.  H.  Stevens 

Sergeant,  George  Hitchcock 

Master  at  arms,         -  -         Ed.  Chapman 

ist  Master  of  Guards,  -  J.  J.  Pratt 

and  Master  of  Guards,  Evan  Roberts 

Sentinel,  George  Morgan 

Picket,  L.  E.  Jones 

In  March,  1899,  they  moved  into  rooms  over  Jaquith  &  Miller's  store, 
corner  of  Main  and  Mill  streets.  Reviews  are  held  on  the  second  and 
fourth  Monday  evenings  each  month. 

The  order  has  continued  to  grow  and  now  has  a  membership  roll  of 
seventy-five  composed  of  prominent  citizens.  There  have  been  no  deaths 
from  this  tent.  The  following  Sir  knights  have  drawn  from  the  sick  and 
accidental  funds :  A.  S.  Preston,  Fred  Henry,  G.  P.  Byer,  E.  L.  Cook, 
Milton  Jeffrey,  Fred  Daniels,  George  Barrett  and  Frank  Wortley.  Total 
amount  drawn.  1393.57.  The  present  officers  are  as  follows  : 

Past  Commander,  E.  E.  Cummings- 

Commander,  Ivan  Hunt 

Lieutenant,  A.  S.  Preston 

Record  Keeper,  -         F.  L.  Cunningham 

Finance  Keeper,  -        F.  L.  Hunt 

Chaplain,  Rev.  S.  S.  Pratt 

Physician,  -        D.  Parker,  M.  D. 

Sergeant,  I/orell  LaMunion 

Master  at  arms,  D.  D.  Perry 

ist  Master  of  Guards,  W.  S.  Frizell 

2nd  Master  of  Guards,  -       Milton  Jeffry 

Sentinel,  Emmett  Freeborn 

Picket,  Ora  Boyd 

C.  B.  Hugg 
Trustees,  •{      C.  A.  Lamt 


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i;O  HISTORY  OF  NEW    WOODSTOCK. 


FAMILY  SKETCHES. 


The   Frizelle    Family. 

(By  Nellie  E.  H.  Fleming.) 


The  family  of  Frizelle  was  among  the  early  settlers  of  New  Woodstock. 
The  head  of  this  family  was  Samuel,  direct  decendant  of  Jamss  Frizelle,  who 
settled  in  Massachusetts  when  twenty-six.  Hume's  History  of  England 
relates  that  Cromwell,  commander  of  the  English  army  under  King 
Charles,  sent  four  or  five  hundred  Scotch  prisoners  to  Boston,  Mass. 
Among  them  were  two  brothers,  James  and  Samuel  Frizelle.  The  elder 
brother,  James,  was  the  ancestor  of  Samuel,  of  New  Woodstock,  the  line 
being  as  follows:  James  Frizelle,  born  1626,  settled  in  Roxbury,  Mass., 
now  part  of  Boston,  in  1652,  and  died  in  1716.  His  sou,  James,  born  1658, 
died  1748.  His  son,  James,  had  a  son,  Samuel,  born  1742,  who,  with  his 
wife,  took  letters  from  the  church  in  Woodstock,  Vermont,  to  Brimfield, 
Massachusetts,  where  they  resided  during  their  lifetime,  and  where 
Samuel,  an  early  settler  of  New  Woodstock,  was  born  in  1769.  He  moved 
in  1793  to  New  Woodstock,  N.  Y.  In  1799  he  married  Polly  Tiffney,  their 
home  being  three-fourths  of  a  mile  south  of  New  Woodstock  on  the  place 
which  still  bears  the  name  of  the  Frizelle  farm.  Their  son,  Horace,  and 
family  lived  in  Syracuse.  Erasmus  resided  on  the  old  farm.  Daniel  also 
made  New  Woodstock  his  home  during  his  life.  Ten  daughters  were  born 
to  Samuel  and  Polly  Frizelle,  three  of  whom  married  three  brothers, 
Ensign,  Orange  and  Rodney  Hill.  Orange  Hill  married  for  his  third 
wife  another  of  the  Frizelle  sisters,  Mrs.  Percy  Chapman,  of  Syracuse. 

Mary  Frizelle  became  Mrs.  Litchfield.  of  Cazenovia.  Caroline  mar- 
ried Mr.  Rice,  and  lived  in  Aurora,  Illinois.  Julia,  the  youngest  one, 
married  John  Loomis  and  lived  several  years  in  New  Woodstock,  after- 
ward moving  to  Independence,  Iowa.  Their  two  children  were  Lewis 


HISTORY   OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  51 

and  Gertrude.  After  the  death  of  the  latter,  Mrs.  Loomis  became  a 
homeopathic  physician,  locating  at  Colorado  Springs,  where  she  built, 
and  with  the  aid  of  her  husband,  successfully  conducted  a  sanitarium  un- 
til her  death. 

Erasmus  Frizelle,  born  in  1801,  continued  living  in  the  old  place, 
caring  for  his  parents  during  the  last  years  of  their  lives.  He  married 
Sarah  Sawyer  in  1829.  They  had  sons,  Electus  L.,  Erasmus  Bert,  and 
Ensign  Hill,  and  daughters,  Elizabeth,  Elzina,  Emma,  and  Ella.  Electus 
L.  married  Emma  Hackett,  and  in  1861  moved  to  Iowa,  later  to  Nevada, 
Mo.,  where  they  now  reside.  Erasmus  Burt  married  Margarite  Torrey, 
and  resides  in  Sterling,  Kansas.  Ensign  Hill  is  unmarried  and  resides  in 
the  far  west.  Elizabeth  married  J.  C.  Ransier.  Elzina  married  A.  E. 
Stewart,  and  later,  J.  M.  Sparling.  Emma  died  in  1881.  Ella  married  J. 
Hammant,  and  later,  G.  Thomas  Fleming,  of  Buffalo  where  they  now  re- 
side. 

In  1861,  Erasmus  Frizelle  sold  the  old  Frizelle  homestead  where  he 
and  all  his  children  were  born,  and  moved  to  Independence,  Iowa,  where 
his  wife  died  in  1878,  and  in  1883  he  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-two. 

Daniel,  youngest  son  of  Samuel  Frizelle,  was  born  in  1818.  He  mar- 
ried Fannie,  daughter  of  Wm.  T.  Richmond.  Their  home  was  in  Delphi 
four  years.  They  then  returned  to  New  Woodstock  where  they  lived  the 
remainder  of  their  lives.  They  had  four  children,  Minnie,  now  Mrs. 
Peters,  Wm.  S.,  both  of  whom  reside  in  New  Woodstock.  Albert,  of 
Syracuse,  and  Fannie,  who  died  in  infancy.  Mr.  Frizelle  learned  the 
trade  of  mason.  Reserved  as  deputy  postmaster  during  Wm.  T.  Rich- 
mond's incumbency,  and  was  justice  of  the  peace  sixteen  years.  He  be- 
came the  owTner  of  the  old  Frizelle  farm,  and  his  death  occurred  there. 
His  wife  died  a  few  years  later. 

James  Frizelle,  brother  of  the  pioneer,  Samuel,  lived  in  the  barn 
meeting  house  when  it  was  burned.  He  had  a  saw  mill  on  the  left  side  of 
the  road  to  Floodport,  just  below  the  bridge.  His  children  were  Amanda 
[Wheeler], Sumner  and  Sally  Frizelle.  Clinton  Wheeler  and  family  are 
the  only  descendants. 


The  Tucker  Family. 


Among  the  earliest  settlers  of  the  town  of  Cazenovia  was  Bishop 
Tucker,  who  came  from  Mansfield,  New  Jersey,  about  the  year  1798.  He 
brought  with  him  one  daughter,  Amie,  and  four  sons,  Thomas,  John, 
Aaron,  and  William  Wilson.  Mr.  Tucker's  wife  was  Sarah  Willson, 
many  of  whose  relatives  are  now  living  in  the  town  of  Lincklaen, 


52  HISTORY  OF    NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

Chenango  Co.  Mr.  Tucker  was  a  cotemporary  of  Col.  Lincklaen,  and  one 
of  his  sons,  Wm.  Wilson,  carried  the  hod  when  the  Lincklean  mansion, 
now  standing  at  the  south  end  of  the  lake,  was  built.  Bishop  Tucker  set- 
tled on  a  road  north  of  Ed.  Damon's  that  came  out  near  Belmout  school 
house,  now  closed.  His  four  sons  all  lived  near  him,  John  and  Aaron  on 
the  turnpike  road  farther  east,  Thomas  on  a  cross  road  leading  north  to- 
ward Cazenovia.  William  W.,  lived  on  the  old  homestead  until  his  death. 
Herbert  Webber,  great-grandson  of  Bishop  Tucker,  now  owns  the  farms 
originally  owned  by  Thomas  and  Aaron  Tucker. 

As  the  custom  was  in  those  days,  all  Bishop  Tucker's  children  mar- 
ried. As  the  Tuckers  were  a  very  conscientious  as  well  as  fashionable  peo- 
ple, they  all  religiously  kept  the  commandment  God  gave  to  man  to 
multiply  and  replenish  the  earth.  Amie  married  Jedediah  Allen,  by 
whom  she  had  a  family  of  eight.  Jedediah,  William,  Thomas,  Samuel, 
Henry,  Elizabeth,  and  Betsey.  Thomas  Tucker  married  Hannah  Webster 
and  had  a  family  of  seven  children.  Pamela,  married  Carlos  Lacy,  Geo- 
rge married  Alice  Ackley,  Jeremy,  married  sisters,  Philetta  and  Mary  Ann 
Hatch;  Andrew  married  Polly  Leary.  Louisa  was  the  wife  of  Winthrop 
Webber ;  Wilhelmina,  wife  of  John  Fuller  ;  Hannah  married  Wm.  Ham 
and  Ellen  was  the  wife  of  E.  W.  Gunn. 

John  Tucker  married  Graticy  Gilbert  and  had  a  family  of  four  child- 
ren. Elsena,  wife  of  Ed  .  Morse,  Alonzo,  who  married  Selecta  Matthews, 
Milton,  married  Lydia  Eestes,  and  Theodore,  who  married  Mrs.  Anna 
Cadogan . 

Aaron  Tucker  married  Mary  Sweetland  and  had  a  family  of  five. 
Bishop  who  went  west  with  the  Beebes  when  young.  Joseph  who  mar- 
ried Electa  Billings,  Eleazer,  who  married  Mary  Murch,  Rebecca,  who 
married  John  Reeve,  and  Sarah,  who  married  Silas  Reeve. 

Last  of  Bishop  Tucker's  family,  but  not  least,  was  Wm.  W.  Tucker, 
who  married  Polly  Dunbar,  and  had  a  family  of  ten  children,  nine  of 
whom  grew  to  maturity.  Wilson  died  when  three  years  old.  Tryphena 
never  married.  Lovina  married  John  Estes.  Jacob  married  Lucy  Knapp. 
John  married  Lydia  Knapp,  James  married  Louise  Estes,  Jeremiah  D. 
married  Almeda  Tourtelot,  Philemon  married  Viola  Blair,  Wm.  Wallace 
married  in  California,  and  Emily  M.  married  Wallace  Smith.  Thus  have 
three  generations  lived,  and  most  have  passed  away,  who  participated  in 
the  early  scenes  and  incidents  of  Cazenovia.  Of  Bishop  Tucker's  children, 
there  are  none  living.  Of  his  grandchildren,  there  are  but  three,  Jere- 
miah D.,  of  Valparaiso,  Ind.,  Wm.  Wallace,  of  Santa  Cruz,  Cal.,  sons  of 
Wm.  W.  Tucker,  and  Theodore,  son  of  John  Tucker.  He  with  Frank 
Tucker,  son  of  Jeremy,  and  great-grandson  of  Bishop  Tucker,  are  the  only 
ones  left  in  their  native  town— two  lone  sentinels,  watching  over  the 
city  of  their  departed  dead.  Frank  Tucker's  children  and  Herbert  Web- 


I 


HISTORY  OF   NEW   WOODSTOCK.  53 

ber's  are  the  fifth  generation  of  Tuckers.     Iva  and   Camilla   Hugg,  re- 
present the  sixth  generation,  living  in  New  Woodstock. 

(Contributed  by  Jeremiah  D.  Tucker,  sou  ol  Wm.  W.  Tucker.) 


Webber. 


Early  in  1800,  Rinaldo,  Chandler,  Elisha  and  John  Webber  settled  in 
New  Woodstock.  They  were  sons  of  Samuel  Webber  of  Hampshire  Co., 
Mass.,  who  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  a  member  of  Col. 
Elisha  Porter's  Hampshire  County  regiment. 

Rinaldo  Webber  was  also  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution  and  was  wounded. 
It  has  been  impossible  to  ascertain  the  name  of  his  wife.  For  many  years 
he  lived  just  across  the  road  from  the  old  red  schoolhouse  in  New  Wood- 
stock. His  sons  were  Arceual,  Seth,  Rinaldo  and  Morris. 

Chandler  Webber  married  Beulah  Coy.  His  sons  were  Erastus,  Ezra, 
who  married  Mary  Gleason,  Hudson  and  Winthrop.  The  daughters  were 
Patty,  Minda  and  Semira  (Leary. ) 

Before  coming  to  New  Woodstock,  Elisha  married  Polly  Parker,  a 
native  of  New  Hampshire.  Their  sons  were  Chandler,  Clement,  Allen 
and  Lester.  The  daughters  were  Almina,  who  married  Nathan  Judson, 
Arethusa,  who  married  William  Moffett,  Keziah,  who  married  Parmenas 
Ainsworth,  Delotia,  who  married  Aaron  Van  Antwerp,  and  Dorinda,  who 
married  William  Hall. 

John  Webber  married  Betsey  Parker,  a  sister  of  Polly.  Their  sons 
were  Grafton,  Parker,  and  John  Alden.  The  daughters  were  Caroline,  De- 
lotia and  Diautha.  The  Webbers  were  all  farmers  except  John,  who  was  a 
stone  mason  and  did  much  of  the  mason  work  in  the  early  days  of  the 
town.  John,  with  his  family,  removed  to  Michigan  in  1837. 

All  of  the  above  named  are  dead  except  John  Alden  Webber,  who  is 
still  living  at  Alma,  near  Lansing,  Mich.  He  married  for  his  first  wife 
Harriet  Gleason,  daughter  of  Artemas  and  Harriet  Gleason,  who  once 
lived  in  the  Dr.  Moffett  house.  The  Gleasons  were  from  Bennington,  Vt. 

Polly,  the  wife  of  Elisha  Webber,  was  a  woman  of  excellent  education, 
having  been  a  teacher  before  her  marriage,  and  was  well-versed  in  history. 
It  was  her  custom  to  amuse  and  instruct  her  children  and  grandchildren 
by  singing  to  them  legends  of  the  trials  and  adventures  of  the  Revolution- 
ary times.  She  was  an  authority  upon  the  medicinal  properties  of  herbs, 
roots  and  barks,  and  in  early  days,  when  physicians  were  few,  she  was 
often  called  to  attend  sick  neighbors  with  excellent  success.  She  waskind- 
hearted,  and  invariably  refused  compensation. 


54  HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

The  Webbers  were  all  Baptists,  and  Elisha  was  for  many  years  deacon 
in  the  church  at  New  Woodstock.  Until  the  anti-slavery  agitation  of  the 
'40*8  all  were  Democrats  except  Elisha;  then  all  became  Free  Soilers,  and 
finally  all  drifted  into  the  Republican  party. 

There  are  none  of  the  descendants  of  the  family  who  bear  the  name  of 
Webber  now  living  at  New  Woodstock  or  vicinity  except  Ed.,  grandson  of 
Elisha,  and  Herbert,  grandson  of  Chandler,  with  their  children. 

Elisha  Webber,  born  1777,  married  Polly  Parker  in  1802,  and  soon  after 
left  Massachusetts,  coming  to  New  Woodstock  with  an  ox  team.  He  pur- 
chased fifty  acres  of  land,  principally  timber,  of  Samuel  Frizell,  paying 
about  ten  dollars  per  acre.  He  followed  farming  in  New  Woodstock,  al- 
though a  powder  maker  by  trade,  and  it  is  said  he  felled  some  of  the  trees 
on  his  farm  and  made  charcoal  for  powder  of  them  toward  paying  for  his 
place.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Webber  had  six  sons  and  five  daughters.  Norman 
Lester  Webber,  the  ninth  child  and  youngest  son,  was  the  last  survivor. 
Mr.  Webber  was  born  on  his  father's  farm  and  lived  there  until  at  the  age 
of  forty-eight,  he  bought  a  farm  north  of  Cazenovia,  moving  there  in  1866. 
He  served  as  deacon  of  the  First  and  Second  Baptist  churches  of  Cazenovia, 
over  forty -years.  He  was  twice  married.  Prenellipa  Scott  left  one  son, 
Elisha.  Mr.  Webber's  second  wife,  who  is  still  living,  was  Jane  Ackley, 
daughter  of  Chauncey  and  Lucinda  [Irish]  Ackley,  of  Lincklaen.  Their 
children  were  James  C.,  who  married  Cora,  daughter  of  Luther  Hunt,  and 
who  with  their  two  children,  live  on  the  Cazenovia  farm;  Mary  A.,  who 
died  when  six  years  old,  and  Lucian  A.,  who  married  in  1883,  Hattie  L.. 
daughter  of  David  and  Angeline  Miller  of  Otisco,  N.  Y.  Lucian  died  at 
the  age  of  twenty-six,  in  Elmira.  His  wife  survives  him  and  is  now  one 
of  the  first  trained  nurses  in  New  York  city. 


Ainsworth. 


Abial  Ainsworth  was  a  son  of  Nathan  Ainsworth,  who  was  born  at 
Woodstock,  Conn.,  in  1740.  A  Revolutionary  soldier,  he  was  captured 
and  died  a  prisoner  in  the  hands  of  the  British  on  ship  board  in  New  York 
in  1776  or  1777.  Abial  was  born  at  Woodstock,  Conn.,  on  May  10,  1777. 
In  1800  he  removed  from  Woodstock,  Conn.,  to-  New  Woodstock,  N.  Y., 
and  on  Jan.  i,  1806,  was  there  married  to  Artemesia  Stowell,  who  was  born 
at  Woodstock,  Conn.,  Nov.  9,  1784. 

He  purchased  real  estate  in  that  neighborhood  and  was  soon  after- 
ward elected  deacon  of  the  Baptist  church,  in  which  capacity  he  acted  for 
many  years.  He  was  a  man  of  great  decision  of  character  and  of  very 
great  general  information,  and  occupied  such  a  position  in  society  that  his 


Photo  byj.  Abell 


Five  Generations  of  Ainsworth  Family 


HISTORY  OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  55 

opinions  upon  general  subjects  were  much  respected  and  had  great  in- 
fluence upon  the  people  of  that  community. 

He  was  the  father  of  the  following  children:  Sophronia,  born  Oct.  21, 
1806,  married  to  Harry  Sackett,  Oct.  31,  1833,  died  about  1869  at  Manlius, 
N.  Y.;  Parmenas,  born  April  2,  1808,  died  in  1901  near  New  Woodstock; 
Walter,  born  Jan.  14,  1810,  died  at  Albion,  N.  Y.,  in  1881;  Abial  Leroy, 
born  Feb.  9,  1812,  died  at  Whitesville,  N.  Y.,  July  15,  1890;  Soranus  Cor- 
bin,  born  at  New  Woodstock,  Jan.  22,  1814,  died  Feb.  8,  1888,  was  an  able 
and  successful  minister  in  the  Baptist  church;  Spencer  Seth,  born  Oct.  8, 
1816,  died  April  28,  1899,  was  a  graduate  of  Madison  University,  and  was 
a  minister  in  the  Baptist  church  until  1856,  when  he  removed  to  West  Union, 
Iowa,  studied  and.  practiced  law  for  some  time  and  afterward  established 
Ainsworth's  grammar  school  at  West  Union;  Amelia  M.,  born  Jan.  24,  1830, 
died  at  Manlius,  N.  Y.,  Jan.  6,  1892,  graduated  from  Oneida  Conference 
Seminary,  in  1856  married  Jewett  Dunbar  of  Buffalo,  who  was  an  intimate 
friend  of  Grover  Cleveland,  whom  she  and  her  husband  often  entertained 
at  dinner  parties. 

One  incident  in  the  early  life  of  Parmenas  Ainsworth  may  be  of  in- 
terest. He  had  invited  Charlotte  Smith,  afterward  Mrs.  Merrill,  to  attend 
a  dance  at  Shed's  Corners,  but  his  father,  on  account  of  his  objection  to 
dances,  refused  to  let  him  have  a  horse  to  take  her  there.  Mr.  Ainsworth 
informed  Miss  Smith  of  the  situation  of  affairs,  and  informed  her  that  he 
had  a  bull  that  drove  very  well  in  the  thills  and  if  she  would  consent,  he 
would  hitch  him  in  and  take  her.  She  agreed  and  they  attended  the 
dance  that  way. 

The  decendants  of  the  foregoing  are  scattered  all  over  the  country. 
Lucian  I,.,  son  of  Parmenas  Ainsworth,  is  now  at  West  Union,  Iowa,  and 
has  five  children,  who,  with  their  children  are  located  near  him.  Walter 
C.  Ainsworth  is  located  at  St.  Louis  Park,  Minn.;  his  other  children  are 
located  near  New  Woodstock,  and  are  Lucretia,  wife  of  Henry  Judd 
Harriet  C.,  wife  of  Augustus  B.  Judd,  aud  Ella  K.,  wife  of  Frank  Soule; 
Abial  Leroy  left  several  children,  all  of  whom  are  located  at  Whitesville, 
Alleghany  Co.,  N.  Y.,  excepting  Willard  C.,  who,  in  1856,  located  near 
Ft.  Dodge,  Iowa,  and  has  a  large,  family,  all  of  whom  are  pleasantly 
situated,  and  Amelia,  wife  of  James  M.  Elmore,  located  near  New  Wood- 
stock. Of  Soranus  Ainsworth's  children,  Spencer  M.,  died  in  Alabama, 
his  widow  and  children  now  living  in  Austin,  Texas;  Herman  Reeve  Ains- 
worth is  a  successful  physician  at  Addison,  N.  Y.;  Caroline  Maria  married 
George  H.  Arnold,  of  Cortland,  N.  Y.,  who  was  a  member  of  the  legisla- 
ture of  New  York,  and  a  prominent  man  in  business  circles  at  that  place. 
Elbert  Augustus  is  a  physician  at  West  Union.,  Iowa,  with  a  lucrative  and 
successful  practice;  Ellen  Augusta  married  P.  W.  Harring  in  1876,  and  is 
now  a  widow,  residing  at  Addison,  N.  Y. 


56  HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

In  compliance  with  a  request  for  a  personal  sketch,  Lucian  L.  Ains- 
worth  writes  as  follows: 

"I  was  born  June  21,  1831,  at  the  home' of  my  grandfather,  Deacon 
EHsha  Webber,  about  one  mile  south  of  New  Woodstock,  on  the  farm  now 
owned  by  Mr.  Shattuck.  The  first  school  I  attended  was  in  1837,  taught 
in  the  old  red  school  house  by  Jane  Smith,  afterward  Mrs.  John  Underwood. 
There  was  little  in  my  life  different  from  the  other  boys  in  the  neighbor- 
hood. I  always  had  an  establiahed  credit  with  Philetus  Lathrop,  Esquire. 
When  I  was  only  ten  or  eleven  years  old  he  trusted  tne  for  candy  to  the 
amount  of  from  five  to  ten  cents  at  a  time,  and  I  always  paid  him  prompt- 
ly. The  first  algebra  I  ever  had  I  bought  of  George  Russell  for  seventy- 
five  cents,  and  paid  him  in  installments  of  from  a  sixpence  to  a  shilling  at 
a  time. 

My  mother  died  in  October,  1847,  and  that  same  winter  I  taught 
school  as  an  assistant  with  George  Scott  in  the  old  academy  for  a  few 
months,  when  Scott's  health  failing,  the  school  was  abandoned  and  I  at- 
tended school  the  balance  of  the  winter  at  the  old  school  house.  Henry 
W.  Slocum,  afterward  General  Slocum,  was  the  teacher.  Subsequently  I 
attended  school  for  several  terms  at  Oneida  Conference  Seminary  at  Caze- 
novia.  In  1849  I  taught  my  first  term  of  district  school  in  the  district  on 
the  Ridge  Road,  about  two  miles  north  of  Cazenovia  village.  Afterward 
I  taught  at  several  places.  In  1853  I  began  reading  law  with  Miner 
Sloan  at  DeRuyter,  and  was  admitted  to  practice  at  the  general  term  of 
the  supreme  court  in  Morrisville  in  1854.  In  the  winter  of  '54  and  '55,  I 
taught  a  select  school  in  the  old  academy  at  New  Woodstock,  two  terms. 
The  first  term  I  boarded  with  Wells  Richmond,  and  the  second  term  with 
Asa  Merrill,  who  lived  in  the  house  now  occupied  by  Mrs.  R.  W.  Rich- 
mond. During  most  of  the  time  after  I  was  fifteen  years  old  until  I  com- 
menced reading  law,  I  worked  on  the  farm  summers. 

April  29,  1855,  I  left  New  Woodstock  to  seek  a  location  in  the  west. 
Came  first  to  Belvidere,  111.,  where  I  remained  for  a  few  months,  and  from 
there  came  to  West  Union,  Fayette  Co.,  Iowa,  where  I  am  still  located. 
Have  been  fairly  successful  in  practice.  I  represented  the  county  in  the 
state  senate  from  1860  to  1864;  the  house  of  representatives  from  1872  to 
1874.  In  1874  was  elected  representative  in  the  44th  congress  from  the 
3rd  congressional  district  of  Iowa.  Declined  a  re-lection  upon  the  expira- 
tion of  that  term,  and  returned  to  the  practice  of  law,  which  I  have  ever 
since  pursued.  Became  a  Master  Mason  in  1856,  Royal  Arch  Mason  in 
1860,  and  a  Knight  Templar  in  1875. 

Have  taken  considerable  interest  in  educational  matters.  Been  a 
member  of  the  school  board  of  West  Union.  Am  now  and  for  nearly 
twenty  years  have  been,  one  of  the  trustees  of  the  upper  Iowa  University, 
the  leading  educational  institution  in  northern  Iowa.  I  was  married  to 


HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK.  57 

Margaret  E.  McCool,  December  8,  1859.  She  was  born  in  Lewisburg, 
Penn.,  October  20,  1833.  There  have  been  born  to  us  six  children,  five  of 
whom  are  living,  four  sons  and  one  daughter,  one  son  dying  Aug.  6,  1868, 
at  the  age  of  one  year  and  eleven  months.  My  children  are  all  married, 
and  I  have  seven  grandchildren.  Like  David  B.  Hill,  '  I  am  a  Democrat,' 
and  always  have  been." 

Dr.  Coy  was  a  teacher  in  New  Woodstock  about  1835.  L.  L.  Ains- 
worth,  then  a  small  lad,  attended  school.  One  day  the  teacher  saw  him 
crying  bitterly.  Laying  his  hand  on  the  boy's  head  he  inquired  what  was 
the  matter.  The  lad  replied,  "  I  am  so  lonesome,  there  are  so  many  folks 
here."  Look  below  the  surface  and  note  the  truth  contained  in  his  words. 
Who  has  notfelt  alone  with  multitudes  about? 


Corbin. 


Jabez  Corbin,  born  in  1667,  is  the  first  ancestor  of  the  family  whom  we 
can  trace.  He  married  Mary  Morris.  His  son,  Deacon  Ebenezer  Corbin, 
1706-1775,  was  the  father  of  Silas  Corbin,  who  with  his  wife,  Anna,  and 
daughters,  Tryphena  and  Eunice,  came  to  "Woodstock  Settlement"  in 
1806.  Two  sons  preceded  him: — Ebenezer,  who  was  here  as  early  as  1800 
with  his  wife,  Martha  Howe,  commonly  called  "Aunt  Patty,"  and  Luther, 
who  was  here  in  1801.  Another  son,  Henry,  and  his  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Betsey  Corbiu,  came  in  1811.  In  1814  a  daughter,  Beu- 
lah  and  her  husband,  Ezra  Lyon,  came.  A  son,  Samuel,  also  became  a 
resident.  All  the  family  were  from  Woodstock,  Conn.  Ebenezer  Corbin 
lived  about  a  mile  north  of  West  Woodstock  Corners,  on  the  farm  now  own- 
ed by  Mrs.  P.  S.  Buell.  The  place  possesses  historic  interest  aside  from 
being  the  home  of  a  pioneer,  as  the  first  conference  on  religious  matters 
was  held  there  Dec.  8,  1800,  and  from  that  meeting  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  Cazenovia,  [Woodstock  Settlement, ]  was  organized,  June  17, 
1801. 

Ebenezer  Corbin  had  eight  children,  five  daughters  and  three  sons, 
only  one  of  whom  is  living,  Rev.  Wm.  Doliver  Corbin. 

When  Luther  Corbin,  (1775,)  came  from  Connecticut  in  1801,  he 
brought  his  extra  clothing  in  a  handkerchief.  Having  only  25  cents  in 
money,  he  got  trusted  for  an  axe,  Isaac  Morse  becoming  security.  He 
located  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Jarvis  Pratt,  and  after  preparing  his 
home  went  back  to  Connecticut,  returning  here  in  1803  with  his  bride, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Olive  Stowell.  Their  children,  nine  in  number 


58  HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK. 

were  Soranius,  who  was  killed  in  Coxsackie;  Samantha,  [Kenyon;]  Anna 
[MorselJ;  Eunice  [Kerr;]  Philetta,  Calvin,  Lucius,  who  married  Charlotte 
Holmes;  Samuel,  and  Mary  [Morse  Peckham.]  Lucius  and  Samuel 
bought  the  farm  of  their  father,  Samuel  afterward  owning  it  alone.  He 
sold  it  to  Perry  Lewis  of  DeRuyter  in  1866,  bought  and  moved  to  the  place 
on  Mill  street  where  he  now  lives. 

Henry  Corbin  and  his  wife,  Betsey,  had  six  children: — Rev.  Wm.  Cor- 
bin,  Tryphena  [Marsh;]  Lucretia  [Reeves;]  Emily  [Tenuey;]  Moses  and 
Dr.  Zenas  Corbin.  The  last  of  the  family,  Mrs.  Lucretia  Corbin  Reeves, 
died  in  this  village,  Feb.  i,  1901,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five.  She  died  at  the 
home  of  her  niece,  Mrs.  Nancy  Powell. 

Silas  Corbin,  already  mentioned  as  having  come  here  in  1806,  died  in 
1814.  His  widow  lived  on  the  place  now  owned  by  F.  C.  Covil.  Her  son, 
Samuel,  and  daughter,  Tryphena,  neither  of  whom  married,  tenderly  car- 
ed for  her  until  her  death,  which  occurred  in  1844  and  is  thus  described  in 
an  article  written  by  her  granddaughter,  Mrs.  Mary  Moffett,  entitled  "The 
Two  Funerals,"  a  part  of  which  we  quote.  "On  the  third  Lord's  Day  of 
November,  1844,  at  one  o'clock,  p.  m.,  the  measured  tolls  of  the  church 
bell  announced  the  approach  of  a  long  procession  from  the  west,  follow- 
ing a  hearse,  bearing  the  withered  remains  of  an  aged  disciple  of  the  Savior. 
It  was  Sister  Anna  Corbin,  who  died  in  the  g8th  year  of  her  age.  At  the 
early  age  of  thirteen  she  was  baptized,  and  lived,  an  ornament  to  the 
Christian  name,  about  eighty-five  years.  Without  any  bodily  disease,  but 
simply  of  old  age,  she  calmly  fell  asleep,  and  entered  the  rest  of  Heaven. 
Half  an  hour  later,  a  procession  from  the  east  appeared,  following  the  re- 
mains of  a  lady  aged  twenty  years,  who  died  of  consumption.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  the  late  David  Taber,  and  the  wife  of  Wm.  Coe,  of  Madison. 
The  two  coffins  Were  placed  on  the  table  in  front  of  the  pulpit,  and  an  ap- 
propriate discourse  was  preached  by  the  pastor,  Rev.  Daniel  Putnam,  from 
II  Tim.,  iv.,  6  to  a  crowded  audience.  After  the  services  at  the  church 
and  graveyard,  all  were  dismissed  and  returned  to  their  homes  to  reflect 
upon,  and  not  soon  to  forget  the  two  funerals.  "Mrs.  Anna  Corbin  is  the 
next  oldest  person  buried  in  the  New  Wookstock  cemetery. 

From  correspondence  obtained  of  Mr.  Samuel  Healey,  Town  Clerk  of 
Dudley,  Mass.,  and  with  persons  in  Connecticut,  we  learn  that  "The  Cor- 
bins  were  fighters."  Fifteen  members  of  the  Corbin  family  were  soldiers 
of  the  Revolutionary  war.  They  all  hailed  from  Dudley,  Mass.,  and 
Woodstock,  Windham  Co.,  Conn.,  the  latter  place  at  that  time  being  a  part 
of  the  colony  of  Massachusetts.  All  are  buried  near  the  home  of  their 
youthful  days. 

The  only  Corbin  now  living  here  is  Samuel.  His  first  wife  was  Char- 
lotte Stowell.  His  present  wife  is  Myra  Stevens  Corbin.  A  son,  Charles, 
lives  in  Corydon,  Iowa. 


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HISTORY   OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  59 


Freeborn. 


When  in  1793  Colonel  John  Lincklaen  made  his  memorable  trip  to  the 
foot  of  Cazenovia  lake  to '  'spy  out  the  land  "  he  was  accompanied  as  teamster 
by  a  young  Rhode  Islander  named  Gideon  Freeborn.  This  young  man  was 
one  of  five  brothers  named  Robert,  Gideon,  David,  Noel  and  Stephen,  who 
were  subsequently  pioneers  of  New  Woodstock  and  vicinity  and  from  whom 
all  by  the  name  of  Freeboru  in  New  York  state  are  descended.  They  them- 
selves were  of  Puritan  ancestry,  the  fifth  in  line  of  descent  from  William 
Freebourue,  an  Englishman  who  came  to  the  Massachusetts  colony  only 
fourteen  years  after  the  landing  of  the  Pilgrims.  He  sailed  from  Ipswich, 
England,  April  30,  1634,  in  the  ship  Francis  with  his  wife,  Mary,  his 
little  daughters  Mary  and  Sarah,  and  a  man  servant.  They  settled  at  Bos- 
ton, then  a  little  settlement  which  had  been  in  existence  only  four  years. 
Freebourne  joined  the  church  at  Boston  and  soon  became  a  supporter  of 
John  Wheelright  and  Anne  Hutchinson,  who  were  preaching  a  liberality  of 
conscience  extremely  distasteful  to  the  governing  powers  of  the  church 
and  colony.  In  1637,  the  discussion  reached  such  an  acute  stage  that,  on 
the  2oth  of  November  of  that  year,  Freebourne  and  eighteen  others  were 
warned  to  "  deliver  up  all  guns,  pistols,  swords,  powder,  shot,  etc.,  because 
the  opinions  and  revelations  of  Mr.  Wheelright  and  Mrs.  Hutchinson  have 
seduced  and  led  into  dangerous  error  many  of  the  people  here  in  New  En- 
gland." They  were  commanded  to  leave  the  colony  and  in  the  spring  of 
1638  they  followed  after  Roger  Williams,  who  had  been  exiled  the  autumn 
previous.  They  traveled  through  the  Indian  country  to  the  Island  of 
Aquidneck,  in  Narraeansett  Bay,  where  they  purchased  land  of  the  Indians 
and  founded  a  "  bodie  politick"  the  corner  stone  of  which  was  absolute 
liberty  of  conscience  ;  and  to  their  credit  be  it  said  that  the  colony  of  Rhode 
Island,  which  they  thus  founded,  has  ever  been,  above  all  American  com- 
monwealths —not  even  excepting  Pennsylvania  under  William  Penn, — the 
one  where  men  were  free  to  hold  such  religious  beliefs  as  their  consciences 
dictated. 

William  Freebourne  lived  the  remainder  of  his  days  in  Rhode  Island, 
dying  April  28,  1670,  aged  80  years.  He  had  one  son,  Gideon.  The  latter 
spent  his  life  in  Rhode  Island,  accumlating  a  large  property,  and  dispos- 
ing at  his  death  of  over  2,000  acres  of  land.  He  was  a  Quaker  and  some 
of  his  holdings  of  real  estate  were  in  Pennsylvania  and  New  Jersey.  He 
was  twice  married.  There  were  six  daughters  by  the  first  wife  and  three 
daughters  and  three  sons  by  the  second.  One  of  the  sons,_born  April  29,  1684, 
was  named  Gideon.  He  was  also  twice  married-  A  large  family  blessed 


60  HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

the  first  union,  but  there  was  one  child  only,  a  son  named  Robert,  by  the 
second.  He  Vas  born  Nov.  n,  1734,  and  became  the  father  of  a  large 
family,  of  whom  the  five  who  came  to  New  Woodstock  were  members. 

Of  the  five  sons,  Gideon  settled  on  the  place  now  owned  by  W.  J. 
Coulter  near  Constine  Bridge.  He  married  Polly  Bush.  Their  children 
were  Rodman,  Fanny,  Sally  and  Mary.  Rodman  married  Priscilla  Morse, 
•daughter  of  Isaac  Morse,  and  moved  to  Allegauy  county.  Fanny  married 
George  Turner.  Mary  married  in  Allegany  county  and  Sally  remained 
unmarried. 

David  Freeborn  also  settled  near  Constine  Bridge  on  the  farm  now 
owned  by  Henry  Scott.  He  had  one  daughter  and  two  sous,  none  of  whom 
remained  in  this  section. 

Robert  Freeborn  settled  near  Union  and  died  early.  He  left  five 
children,  all  of  whom  settled  away  from  Woodstock. 

Noel  Freeborn  lived  near  Constine  on  the  farm  now  owned  by 
Thomas  Merriam.  He  married  Anna  Tabor  and  they  had  four  children, 
all  of  whom  went  west.  He  was  a  soldier  of  the  war  of  1812,  saw  service 
at  Sackett's  Harbor,  and  died  as  a  result  of  his  army  experience. 

Stephen  Freeborn,  the  youngest  of  the  brothers,  was  the  ancestor  of 
all  those  by  the  name  of  Freeboru  now  living  in  Woodstock  or  vicinity. 
He  was  born  May  16,  1776.  It  is  not  known  at  what  time  he  came  from 
Rhode  Island,  but  it  was  very  soon  after  the  country  hereabouts  was  open- 
ed up  for  settlement.  He  married  Lucy  White,  daughter  of  Joseph 
White,  a  revolutionary  soldier,  who  had  moved  from  Connecticut  by  ox 
team  about  the  time  the  Freeborns  came.  He  died  May  29  1852.  Their 
children  were  Rowena,  Solomon,  Hannah,  Mary,  Hester  .Ursula,  Stephen 
Van  Rennselaer,  Sarah,  Leonard  W.,  Laura  Adaline,  Euphrasia  Jane  and 
Patrick  Henry.  Of  these,  Sarah  and  Euphrasia  Jane  died  while  young 
women.  Rowena  and  Hannah  did  not  marry.  Solomon  married  Lydia 
Ann  Brown  and  removed  to  Allegany  county.  Mary  married  Aram  Stone 
of  Nelson.  Hester  Ursula  married  Christopher  Abbott  of  Eaton,  removed 
to  Michigan  and  from  thence  to  Ohio.  Laura  Adaline  married  Monroe 
Ferry  and  moved  to  Wyoming  county.  Patrick  Henry  married  Louisa 
Bateman  and  went  to  Allegany  county. 

Stephen  Van  Rennselaer  was  born  April  30,  1815.  He  married 
Silence  Hatch  of  Nelson,  and  died  June  isth,  1875.  Their  children  were 
Benjamin  Stephen,  who  was  killed  by  lightning  when  only  21;  Lucy  Alice, 
who  married  Lyman  H.  Slocum  and  died  leaving  one  daughter,  Sarah, 
now  Mrs.  Roy  Scott;  Sarah  Lovisa,  who  died  as  a  young  woman;  twin 
daughters,  Ella  and  Emma,  who  died  when  15  and  17  years  of  age;  Wil- 
liam H.  who  married  Harriet  Huntley,  and  who  is  now  an  extensive  deal- 
er in  live  stock,  resident  in  New  Woodstock.  They  have  three  child- 
ren, Jennie  H.,  Newell  V.,  now  a  merchant  at  Erieville,  and  Alice  Lillian, 


Residence  of  L.  W.  Freeborn 


Holstein  Dairy  and  Farm  Buildings  on  Freeborn  Homestead 


HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK.  6 1 

recently  married  to  Harman  K.  Stoddard.    Newell  V.   Freeborn   married 
Jennie  Seaver  of  Erieville  and  has  one  child. 

Leonard  W.  Freeborn  was  born  May  27,  1819,  in  the  house  still  stand- 
ing on  the  farm  owned  by  the  late  Roy  Scott  uearConstiue  Bridge.  When 
twelve  years  of  age  he  moved  with  his  parents  to  a  farm  near  Erieville, 
where  he  remained  until  his  marriage.  He  married  Ruby  Louisa  Morse, 
daughter  of  Gershom  Morse,  April  18,  1847.  He  worked  a  place  in  part- 
nership with  Edward  Thurber  one  year,  then  went  back  to  Erieville  for 
three  years,  after  which  he  bought  the  Stowell  place,  one  and  a  half  miles 
south  of  Woodstock.  This  was  his  home  for  fifteen  years.  In  1866  he 
purchased  the  farm  where  he  now  lives,  a  mile  north  of  Woodstock.  In 
addition  to  the  carrying  on  of  a  large  farm  he  was  for  years  an  extensive 
dealer  in  butter  and  cheese.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Freeborn  had  nine  children: 
Mary  L.,  Frank  L.,  John  C.,  N.  Etta,  Gardiner  M.,  George  R.  (who  died 
in  infancy,)  Emmett  D.,  Dora  L.,  and  Ella  J.  Of  these,  Mary  married  E. 
S.  Damon,  and  has  two  sons,  Frank  L.  and  Edwin  Glen.  John  married 
Harriet  E.  Barnard  and  has  four  children,  Estella  L.,  Gurdin  B.,  Eudora 
Irene  and  Leonard  Walter.  Etta  married  Lyman  H.  Slocum.  They  have 
had  five  children;  Hattie  Louisa,  who  died  in  infancy,  Lyman  Dean,  Etta 
Louise,  Dora  Lois,  and  J.  Leslie.  Louise  died  in  September,  1901.  Gar- 
diner married  Etta  Cunningham  (who  died  in  1900)  and  has  three  child- 
ren, Lena  U.,  Leonard  E.,  and  Lucina  Athalene.  Emmett  married  a 
distant  cousin,  Ella  Freeboru,  January  6,  1897.  She  died  May  3,  1897, 
and  he  afterward  married  in  March.  1899,  Emma  Steiuer.  Dora  married 
J.  A.  Loyster,  of  Cazenovia.  Ella  married  Lucian  A.  Judd  and  lives  in 
New  Woodstock. 


Underwood. 


Among  the  early  settlers  in  New  Woodstock  was  Marvel  Daniel 
Underwood  from  Woodstock,  Connecticut,  where  his  family  had  l^ved  for 
two  generations  before  him,  coming  thence  from  Watertown,  Massachu- 
setts, where  the  ancestor  of  the  family  settled  shortly  after  the  lauding  of 
the  Pilgrims.  Marvel  Underwood  was  the  second  son  of  Daniel  Under- 
wood and  was  born  in  Woodstock  Feb.  15,  1773.  He  came  to  New  Wood- 
stock about  1800,  and  first  lived  on  the  "Fisk  farm"  on  the  west  street, 
building  the  house  there,  and  afterward  lived  at  "Bull's  Corners"  in  a 
house  subsequently  owned  by  Columbus  Barrett.  After  his  son,  Marcus, 
was  married,  he  repaired  the  house  opposite  his  son's  place,  and  lived 
there  until  his  death.  He  was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  constructed  a 


62  HISTORY  OF  NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

number  of  the  buildings  about  New  Woodstock,  including  the  old  Baptist 
church,  of  which  he  was  a  constituent  member.  He  was  the  first  church 
clerk,  serving  as  such  nearly  nine  years,  from  1801  till  1810.  Although 
reared  in  the  Puritan  faith  of  New  England,  he  was  not  wholly  in  sym- 
pathy with  the  Calvanistic  faith,  more  severe  in  those  days  than  now. 
He  was  musical  in  his  tastes,  and  led  the  singing  for  a  long  time  in  the 
church.  He  was  a  strong  Mason,  and  Master  of  a  lodge,  and  after  the  ex- 
citement of  the  Morgan  episode,  did  not  meet  with  the  members  of  his 
craft  in  Central  New  York,  for  fear  of  the  excitement  of  those  times.  He 
served  as  a  captain  in  the  war  of  1812.  He  married  Betsey  Lyon,  another 
of  the  early  settlers  from  Woodstock.  His  wife  bore  him  eight  children, 
two  of  whom  died  in  infancy,  and  a  third  in  her  young  womanhood.  The 
oldest  daughter,  Almira,  married  Eliakim  Clark,  who  also  served  in  the 
war  of  1812.  His  daughter,  Artemisia,  was  the  wife  of  Columbus  Barrett, 
who  lived  many  years  after  her  death  at  West  Woodstock.  His  daughter, 
Keziah,  married  Eli  Wood,  who  lived  many  years  in  New  Woodstock,  and 
afterwards  removed  with  his  family  to  Michigan. 

Marcus  Lyou  Underwood,  [1807-1878]  was  the  oldest  son  of  Marvel, 
and  lived  all  his  life  on  a  large  dairy  farm  just  above  West  Woodstock. 
He  was  a  prominent  man  of  affairs  in  his  town,  held  various  offices  up  to 
Supervisor  and  was  a  useful  member  of  the  Methodist  church,  where  he 
sang  for  many  years  in  the  choir.  He  left  two  sons  by  his  first  marriage 
to  Huldah  Wallis,  and  two  by  his  second  marriage  to  Lucretia  A.  Lacy. 
They  all  removed  from  New  Woodstock,  two  of  them  to  the  west. 
His  son,  Charles  Kingsley  Underwood,  lived  on  his  father's  place  for 
a  time,  was  afterward  sheriff  of  the  county,  and  is  now  in  business  in 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Marvel  Underwood's  youngest  son  was  John  Lincklaen  Underwood, 
[  1809-1860.]  He  lived  for  a  time  after  his  marriage  in  the  house  formerly 
occupied  by  his  father,  and  opposite  that  of  his  brother,  Marcus.  He 
thence  removed  to  the  village,  where  he  opened  the  mills  and  lived  on 
Mill  street.  In  the  spring  of  1854  he  purchased  a  farm  a  half  mile  west  of 
what  was  afterward  known  as  Webster  Station,  where  he  lived  until  his 
early  death  at  51.  Like  his  brother  Marcus,  he  was  a  fine  singer,  and  for 
many  years  sang  in  the  choir  of  the  Methodist  church,  of  which  he  was  a 
member,  and  a  consistent  Christian.  Like  his  brother,  he  was  a  Whig,  and 
afterward  a  Republican  in  politics,  casting  his  last  vote  for  Abraham  Lin- 
coln, shortly  before  his  death.  He  married  Jane  H.  Smith,  daughter  of 
William  and  Sally  Dean  [Pollard]  Smith.  His  family  continued  to  live  at 
the  "Number  Nine"  farm  until  1874,  when  they  removed  to  Syracuse, 
where  his  daughter  Sara,  for  many  years  a  teacher,  is  now  living  with  her 
mother,  now  nearly  eighty-three  years  of  age.  His  oldest  son,  Edward 
Everett  Underwood,  born  at  the  West  Woodstock  place,  was  in  the  United 


HISTORY  OF    NEW   WOODSTOCK.  63 

States  service  throughout  the  Civil  war,  was  in  numerous  battles,  includ- 
ing the  famous  Seven  Day's  Fight  before  Richmond,  and  was  wounded  in 
the  battles  of  Malveru  Hill,  Games'  Mill,  and  Chancellorsville.  He  now 
resides  in  Brooklyn,  New  York,  where  he  has  long  been  connected  with 
the  Department  of  City  Works  in  the  office  of  the  Chief  Engineer.  Lucien 
Marcus  Underwood,  the  youngest  of  the  family  of  John  L.  Underwood, 
was  born  at  the  house  on  Mill  street  in  the  village,  and  has  been  for  many 
years  engaged  in  teaching.  At  present  he  is  Professor  of  Botany  in  Col- 
umbia University,  New  York  city. 

Marvel  Daniel  Underwood  died  October  23,  1835,  and,  with  his  wife, 
two  sons  and  three  daughters,  is  buried  in  the  village  cemetery.  With 
Marvel  Underwood  others  of  his  family  came  early  to  New  Woodstock. 
Among  these  was  his  younger  brother,  Abishai,  whose  wife,  Ruby,  is  buried 
in  the  cemetery.  He  removed  early  to  Chautauqua  county  where  he  had 
a  large  family,  and  later  in  life  married  a  third  time  and  removed  to 
Waushara,  Wisconsin,  where  he  died  in  1852.  Three  sisters  of  Marvel  and 
Abishai  also  came  to  New  Woodstock  about  the  same  time.  Lucy,  who 
married  Oliver  Bugbee  ;  Ruth,  who  married  Stephen  Chaffee  ;  and  Eliza- 
beth, who  married  Solomon  Mirick,  whose  family  afterward  removed  to 
Wayne  county. 

An  uncle  of  Marvel  Underwood,  Lemuel  Underwood  by  name,  also  came 
to  New  Woodstock,  and  settled  on  the  hill  beyond  the  Moffett  place.  His 
sons  all  died  in  early  life,  but  two  of  his  daughters,  both  of  whom  married 
Stewarts,  lived  for  a  time  in  New  Woodstock.  Lemuel  Underwood's  third 
wife  was  Mrs.  Susan  Parr,  more  familiarly  known  as  "Aunt  Susy,"  who 
lived  until  1875.  A  sister  of  Lemuel  Underwood,  Marsilva,  married  Moses 
Bugbee,  also  a  resident  of  this  town.  Another  sister,  Olive,  married  Elisha 
Gage,  ancestor  of  the  Gage  family  of  West  Woodstock,  who  came  to  the 
town  in  1803. 


Lyon. 


The  Lyons  are  of  English  parentage  and  commencing  with  Wm. 
Lyon  of  Heston,  England,  born  about  1585,  the  lineal  descent  and  history  is 
as  follows.  Wm.  Lyon,  son  of  \Vm.  Lyon, [I]  was  born  in  Heston,  England, 
in  1620.  Left  the  Thames  on  the  ship,  Hopewell,  Sept.  1 1,  i635,in  charge  of 
Isaac  Heath  and  family.  They  reached  Roxbury,  Mass.,  1635,  and  settled 
there.  In  1646  Wm.  married  Sarah  Ruggles,  daughter  of  John  RugglesEsq. 
of  Nazing,  England.  Esq.  was  an  honorable  title  in  England.  Wm.  and  Sarah 
were  acquainted  in  England.  On  coming  to  America,  the  boy  and  girl 


64  HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

friendship  terminated  in  marriage.  In  1646,  Wm.  was  a  member  of  the 
Ancient  and  Honorable  Artillery  Company  of  Boston,  the  oldest  and 
most  aristocratic  military  organization  in  the  United  States,  and  the  se- 
cond oldest  company  in  the  world.  Seven  children  were  born  to  them. 
John,  the  eldest,  was  baptized  April  10,  1647,  probably  when  seven  days 
old.  The  others  were  Thomas,  Samuel,  William,  Joseph,  Sarah  and 
Jonathan.  All  were  baptized  in  their  first  year.  In  1665,  Wm.  senior 
was  admitted  to  full  connection  in  Apostle  Eliot's  church.  In  1686,  he 
went,  with  his  sons,  Wm.  Jr.,  Thomas  and  Joseph,  their  families,  and 
nearly  forty  other  families  to  WestRoxbury,  then  said  to  be  in  Massachu- 
setts, and  had  land  allotted  to  them.  This  was  afterward  found  to  be  in 
Connecticut,  and  is  now  called  Woodstock.  The  father  soon  returned  to 
Roxbury,  and  there  died  in  1692.  He  was  buried  in  the  Eustis  burying 
ground,  corner  of  Eustis  and  Washington  streets,  Boston,  in  the  same 
ground  where  Eliot,  the  "Apostle  to  the  Indians"  is  buried.  His  son  John 
and  his  wife  both  died  on  the  same  day  and  were  buried  in  one  grave,  in 
Roxbury,  Jan.  15,  1702.  Their  son,  Wm.,  born  1675,  married  Deborah  Col- 
born;  who  died  in  Woodstock,  Conn.,  1699.  He  then  married  Martha 
Morris.  A  son,  Aaron,  born  1706,  was  slain  by  an  Indian  enemy,  in  1746. 
Aaron's  son,  Ezra,  born  1744,  married  Sara  Corbin,  a  granddaughter  of 
Jabez  Corbin.  They  had  seven  children:  Chloe,  1772,  Orinda,  1773,  Bet- 
sey, 1774,  Ezra,  1776,  Sabra,  1778,  Phebe,  1780,  and  Marcus,  1783.  Betsey 
married  Marvel  Underwood,  who  came  to  New  Woodstock  as  early  as  1800. 
Her  youngest  brother  Marcus,  came  here  on  horseback  from  Woodstock, 
Conn.,  in  1804  or  1805  to  visit  her  and  his  Corbin  relatives.  On  his  way 
back,  he  was  murdered  by  two  Irishmen,  Dominick  Daley  and  James 
Halligan.  One  account  says  his  body  was  thown  into  the  Chickopee  river. 
If  so,  it  was  afterward  found,  as  the  following,  taken  from  his  tombstone 
shows:  "Here  lies  buried  the  body  of  Marcus  Lyon,  who  was  murdered  in 
Wilbraham,  Mass.,  Nov.  9,  1805,  in  the  23rd  year  of  his  age. 

"My  soul  is  gone  to  worlds  unknown 

Reader  I  speak  to  the 

Prepare  for  death  while  you  have  breath 

prepare  to  follow  me 

By  bloody  men  brot  to  my  end 

no  warning  did  I  have 

I've  bid  Adieu  to  all  below 

I,ayd  in  this  Silent  grave." 

The  two  murderers  were  tried,  convicted  and  hanged,  principally  on 
the  evidence  of  Marvel  Underwood,  who  identified  the  money  in  their  pos- 
session as  some  that  the  murdered  man  had.  Miss  Ann  Lyon,  then  less 
than  three  years  old,  remembered  seeing  her  father  weep  bitterly  on  re- 
ceiving the  news  of  his  brother's  death. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  WOODSTOCK.  65 

Sabra  Lyon,  a  sister  of  Betsey  Underwood,  in  1821  married  Willis 
Moffet,  a  pioneer.  Pheobe  married  Thomas  Merrick.  Ezra  Lyon,  Jr.,  son 
of  Ezra  and  Sabra  Corbin  Lyon,  married  his  cousin,  a  daughter  of  Silas 
and  Anna  Corbin.  They  had  six  children,  four  of  whom  were  born  in 
Woodstock,  Conn.,  Ann  Fisk,  1803;  Mary,  1806;  Marcus,  1810,  and  Silas 
1813.  The  family  came  here  in  1814  when  Silas  Corbin  Lyon  was  not  over 
one  year  old.  They  settled  on  a  small  farm,  Ezra  Lyon  building  the  old 
red  house  on  the  place  where  Jerman  Morse's  farm  house  now  stands. 
Ezra  Lyon,  being  a  cooper,  worked  at  his  trade.  He  had  been  a  merchant 
in  Woodstock,  Conn.,  but  had  failed  through  the  sudden  ending  of  the  war 
of  1812,  leaving  him  with  a  stock  of  goods  which  had  been  purchased  at 
war  prices.  So  he  migrated  to  the  then  new  settlement  in  New  York 
State.  Two  children  were  born  here,  Sarah,  who  liyed  a  little  over  three 
years,  and  George  Clinton  Lyon,  who  died  of  consumption  in  1849,  aged 
29  years.  Ezra  Lyon's  oldest  son,  Marcus,  married  Emily  Hibbard  and 
lived  in  Liverpool,  near  Syracuse.  Ann  Fisk  Lyon  never  married,  but  is 
remembered  for  her  devotion  to  others,  and  her  consistent  Christian  life. 
Her  sister  Mary  married  Wm.  Moffett  and  is  also  remembered  as  having 
much  of  the  same  sweet  Christian  spirit  as  Ann.  Silas  Corbin  Lyon 
married  Susan  Holmes,  born  1816,  near  Shed's  Corners,  town  of  DeRuyter, 
N.  Y.  Her  father  was  Isaac  Holmes,  and  her  mother  was  Elizabeth  Gard- 
ner, sister  of  Dwight,  Timothy  and  Susan  Gardner.  The  Holmes  and 
Gardner  families  came  from  Massachusetts.  Susan  Gardner,  a  sister,  re- 
mained in  Mass  ,  marrying  Abner  Hitchcock,  of  Ware,  Mass.,  and  had 
twelve  children,  a  number  of  whom  are  living. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Silas  Lyon  has  three  children.  Charlotte  Helen,  1843, 
Henry  Corbin,  1847,  were  born  on  Elder  John  Peck's  farm.  Marcus  Holmes 
Lyon  was  born  on  the  Marcus  Underwood  farm  opposite  where  Frank 
Tucker  now  lives.  Henry  Corbin  Lyon  of  Boston,  Mass.,  is  the  only  one 
of  the  family  now  living.  A  sister  of  Mrs.  Susan  Lyon,  Charlotte  Holmes, 
married  Lucius  Corbin,  son  of  Luther  Corbin,  a  pioneer. 

Daniel  Lyon,  a  brother  of  Aaron  Lyon,  of  the  fifth  generation,  was  in 
the  Revolution,  and  was  one  of  the  Boston  Tea  Party,  helping  destroy  the 
tea  on  the  third  and  last  ship.  Another  distant  relation,  Asahel  Lyon, 
was  one  of  the  soldiers  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  from  Connecticut.  His 
name  is  on  the  bronze  tablet  set  up  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  just  below  the 
Bunker  Hill  monument.  Bellevue  street  in  Roxbury,  where  the  old  family 
homestead  stood,  was  formerly  called  Lyon  street. 

The  Lyon  ancestry  extends  over  a  period  of  more  than  three  hundred 
years  giving  the  American  ancestry  in  an  unbroken  line  two  hundred  sixty- 
six  years. 

Henry  Corbin  Lyon,  the  only  surviving  member  of  Silas  Lyon's 
family,  was  a  graduate  of  Colgate  University  with  the  expectation  of  de- 


66  HISTORY  OF  NEW    WOODSTOCK. 

voting  his  life  to  the  Baptist  ministry.  The  failure  of  his  health  making 
this  impossible,  he  conducted  a  hotel  in  the  Adirondacks  for  a  time,  sub- 
sequently entering  the  employ  of  Raymond  and  Whitcomb,  in  the  tourist 
travel  business.  In  this  capacity  he  has  accomplished  much  in  the  way  of 
travel,  having  crossed  the  continent  no  less  than  twenty-eight  times  from 
east  to  west,  an  equal  number  from  west  to  east  making  fifty-six  times. 
He  has  been  from  San  Francisco  to  Honolulu  seven  times,  each  time 
visiting  the  volcano  Kilauea.  He  has  made  one  trip  to  Alaska  and  one 
to  Yosemite  Valley,  to  the  Yellowstone  National  Park  many  times,  and 
has  traveled  over  three  thousand  miles  in  old  Mexico,  going  south  nearly 
to  Vera  Cruz.  Mr.  Lyon  has  made  three  trips  to  Europe,  and  has  been  in 
every  state  in  the  Union  except  Arkansas  and  South  Dakota.  He  has  been 
twice  to  the  Bahama  Islands  and  once  to  the  island  of  Jainica,  and  has  also 
been  repeately  to  Lake  St.  John  and  the  Saguenay  River  in  Canada. 


Moffett. 


Dr.  Joseph  Moffett,  1740-1802,  of  Brimfield,  Mass.,  was  a  Revolutionary 
soldier,  serving  under  Washington  in  the  Braddock  campaign  and  also  as 
sergeant  major,- helping  to  put  down  an  insurrection  in  1784.  Dr.  Moffett  was 
twice  married.  His  first  wife  Margaret,  1740  1771,  was  a  daughter  of  Ichabod, 
son  of  Thomas  Bliss,  one  of  the  few  in  Brimfield  who  held  negro  slaves.  Some 
of  her  ancestors  are  reported  to  have  been  great  friends  of  Oliver  Cromwell. 
They  were  married  in  1762,  and  their  four  children  were  Lewis,  1764,  a 
Revolutionary  soldier;  Tabitha,  1765-1767;  Joseph,  Jr.,  1761,  and  Willis, 
1770.  The  four  children  of  Joseph  Moffett,  Jr.,  and  Lois  Haynes  were 
Chester,  1775-1861;  Lois,  1776;  Tabby,  1780-1858,  and  Alviu,  1785.  Joseph, 
Jr.,  and  Willis  came  as  pioneers  to  New  Woodstock.  A  deed  recorded  in 
the  county  clerk's  office  at  Norwich,  N.  Y.,  shows  that  Willis  Moffett  pur- 
chased 150  acres  of  land,  September  i,  1803,  paying  $450.  Survey  was 
made  by  Nathan  Locke  in  1793,  and  map  of  said  survey  filed  in  county 
clerk's  office  of  Herkimer,  afterward  Oneida  county.  September  19,  1803, 
20  acres  of  the  above  land  was  sold  to  Benjamin  Virgil  for  $100.  The  bal- 
ance of  the  farm  was  known  as  Moffett  Hill  and  remained  in  possession  of 
the  family  nearly  eighty  years,  being  sold  March  i,  1883.  The  first  wife 
of  Willis  Moffett  was  Sally  Smith,  of  Brimfield,  1767-1820,  a  sister  of  the 
pioneers,  David,  Jonathan  and  Wm.  Smith.  His  second  wife  was  Sabra 
Lyon,  to  whom  he  was  married  Sunday,  January  28,  1821,  by  John  Peck, 
V.  D.  M. 

By  the  first  marriage  there  were  nine  children.  Margaret,  who  died  in 
infancy;  Lois,  1795,  married  Perry  Childs,  and  Benjamin  Holmes;  Reuben, 


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1797-1863,  married  twice;  Theresa,  1799-1894.  married  Lyman  Bugbeein 
1825  ;  Jairus,  1801-1879,  married  Sophronia  Brainard,  and  second,  Almira 
Brainard.  Romeyn  Moffett,  a  prominent  business  man  of  Erie,  Pa.,  is  a  son 
of  Jairus  Moffett. 

The  sixth  child  of  Willis  and  Sally  Moffett,  and  the  first  one  born  in 
New  Woodstock,  was  Sarah,  1804.  She  married  Dr.  L.  Z.  Haven,  and  in  1834, 
having  the  pioneer  instincts  and  western  fever,  Dr.  Haven  drove  with  his 
wife  in  a  covered  wagon  to  Chicago,  the  trip  taking  six  weeks.  Their 
home  was  in  a  log  cabin,  and  Mrs.  Haven  often  related  her  experience 
with  wolves  near  the  cabin  door  on  the  spot  where  the  Sherman  house  now 
stands.  They  remained  in  Chicago  a  short  time,  then  moved  to  Joliet,  and 
after  a  time,  returned  to  Utica,  N.  Y.,  where  they  lived  until  they  again 
went  to  Chicago  for  a  permanent  home.  Dr.  Haven  was  a  well  known 
authority  on  various  scientific  subjects  and,  owing  to  that  fact,  Mrs. 
Haven  frequently  entertained  leading  scientists,  including  Professors 
Agassiz,  Hitchcock,  Grey,  and  O.  M.  Fowler.  "  Grandma  Haven  "  died  at 
the  home  of  her  son,  E.  P.  Haven,  in  Chicago,  in  the  ninety-first  year  of 
her  age,  retaining  her  keen  intellect  to  the  last. 

Willis  Moffet,  Jr.,  was  born  in  1806.  Emily,  1808-1862,  was  married  to 
Ralph  Bell  in  1828.  A  more  extended  account  of  her  is  included  in  the 
Bell  sketch. 

William,  the  ninth  and  youngest  child  of  Willis  and  Sally  Moffett, 
was  born  in  1811  and  died  in  1892.  His  father  died  in  1845  aged  seventy 
years.  Wm.  remained  at  home  living  on  the  "Moffett  Hill1'  farm  until  it 
was  sold  in  1883.  He  passed  the  remaining  nine  years  of  his  life  in  the 
village  of  New  Woodstock.  He  married  Arethusa  Webberin  1833.  There 
were  four  children,  Norman  L.,  1834-1846;  Jane  E. ,  1836,  burned  to  death 
in  1848;  Dwight  E.,  1839,  now  in  Corning,  Iowa,  who  has  six  daughters; 
Silas  L.,  1841,  Australia.  He  has  one  son  in  St.  Paul,  Minn.,  the  other  in 
Canastota,  N.  Y. 

In  1842  Mr.  Moffett  married  Mary  Lyon.  Two  sous  were  born  to  them. 
Elbert  Willis,  1846,  who  married  Rosa  Morley,  daughter  of  the  late  Rev. 
Butler  Morley,  a  former  pastor  of  the  New  Woodstock  Baptist  church. 
They  reside  in  Fayetteville,  N.  Y.  and  have  one  daughter,  Ella  B.  Moffett 
of  New  York  City.  The  other  son,  George,  married  Anna  Corbin,  a 
daughter  of  Luther  and  Charlotte  Holmes  Corbiu.  They  live  in  New  Wood- 
stock, and  have  one  daughter,  Ethel  Moffett. 

Joseph  Moffett  was  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  College,  acquiring  distinc- 
tion as  a  student  and  as  a  military  cadet,  being  elected  captain  of  a  com- 
pany of  college  cadets,  which  was  considered  a  great  honor  at  that  time. 
He  afterward  studied  medicine,  coming  to  New  Woodstock  as  early  as  1810. 
The  history  of  Madison  and  Chenango  states  that  he  is  thought  to  be  the 
first  physician  who  practiced  here.  The  Dr.  Moffett  house  is  the  one  now 


68  HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

owned  by  Fenton  Maine.  Dr.  Gibbs  and  Dr.  Collins  also  lived  there,  as 
well  as  Jonathan  Shed,  Frank  Burgess,  Benjamin  Hatch,  and  Ezra  Webber. 

Dr.  Moffett,  Jr.,  married  Polly  Sargent.  They  had  eleven  children, 
six  sons  and  five  daughters.  Four  of  the  children  were  born  in  New  Wood- 
stock. A  son,  Charles  D.,  was  the  father  of  John  F.  Moffett  ofWatertown, 
N.  Y. 

The  Moffett  sketch  would  not  be  complete  if  Tabitha  Moffett  Brown 
were  not  mentioned.  She  was  the  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Lois  Moffett, 
half  sister  of  Willis  and  Joseph,  Jr.  Born  in  Brimfield  in  1780,  at  the  age 
of  nineteen  she  married  Rev.  Clark  Brown  of  Stonington,  Conn.  They  re- 
moved to  Maryland  where  she  was  left  a  widow  with  three  children.  She 
taught  school  there  eight  years,  supporting  and  educating  her  children. 
The  family  removed  to  Missouri  and  from  there  Mrs.  Brown,  in  1848,  at 
the  age  of  sixty-six,  with  her  children  and  grandchildren  went  to  Tualatin 
Plains,  now  Forest  Grove,  Oregon,  enduring  many  hardships  on  the 
journey.  She  assisted  in  founding  the  Tualatin  Academy,  giving  a  lot  and 
five  hundred  dollars  earned  by  herself  toward  the  work.  She  subsequent- 
ly gave  a  bell  to  the  Congregational  church  in  that  town,  and  just  before 
her  death  in  May,  1858  gave  her  own  house  and  lot  to  the  Pacific  Univer- 
sity, whose  humble  beginning  was  a  log  schoolhouse,  then  an  academy  and 
finally  a  college. 

Bell. 


Phineas  Bell  was  born  March  i,  1761.  He  served  as  a  minute  man  in 
Sussex  County,  New  Jersey,  militia.  He  enlisted  when  sixteen  years  old 
as  a  private  in  Captain  Henry  Luce's  company,  New  Jersey  Continental 
Line.  He  was  taken  prisoner  at  Bergen  Point,  1779,  and  was  confined  in 
the  old  sugar  house,  New  York,  about  eight  months.  He  was  then  car- 
ried to  the  hospital,  which  was  the  Friend  meetinghouse,  where  he  spent 
the  remainder  of  his  time,  ten  months  and  twenty  days,  until  exchanged. 
He  was  transferred  and  took  part  in  the  following  battles: 

Brandy  wine,  Delaware,  1777. 

Germantown,  Pennsylvania,  1777. 

Monmouth,  New  Jersey,  1778. 

Yorktown,  Virginia,  1781. 

He  was  also  present  at  the  surrender  of  Lord  Coruwallis,  October  19, 
1781.  He  was  discharged  at  York,  Pennsylvania,  in  1783.  Mr.  Bell  mar- 
ried Sarah  Rockwell,  March,  1795.  He  died  in  Westmoreland,  Oneida 
County,  in  1845.  His  son,  Ralph  Bell,  was  born  in  Westmoreland,  in  1806 
and  married  Emily  Moffett  of  New  Woodstock  in  1828,  moving  to  Perry, 


Photo  bv  Mrs.  F.  L.  Cunningham 

Col.  Ralph  Bell 
Bell  House,  First  Hotel  in  New  Woodstock 


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N.  Y.,  where  he  manufactured  wagons.  In  1836  he  took  his  family  and 
household  goods  overland  to  Chicago.  Not  liking  that  then  unhealthy 
locality,  he  again  started  the  "prairie  schooner"  westward,  locating  upon 
one  hundred  sixty  acres  of  government  land,  upon  a  part  of  which  the  vil- 
lage of  Tonica  now  stands.  He  helped  build  a  mill  and  remained  there 
two  years.  Because  of  continued  illness  in  his  family,  Colonel  Bell  decid- 
ed to  return  to  New  York,  coining  first  to  Perry,  then,  about  1837,  to  New 
Woodstock.  He  manufactured  carriages  in  New  Woodstock  until  1863, 
when  he  removed  to  Webster  City,  Iowa,  where  he  died  in  1897,  aged 
ninety-one.  His  wife  and  two  daughters,  Elizabeth  Bell  and  Harriet  Bell, 
wife  of  D.  D.  Chase,  died  several  years  before  he  did.  A  son,  J.  M.  Bell, 
of  Winona,  Minn.,  died  in  December,  1900. 

The  surviving  children  are  Mrs.  S.  E.  Morse  of  New  Woodstock,  R. 
P.  Bell  of  Fort  Dodge,  Iowa,  Mrs.  J.  H.  Andrews,  of  Boone,  Iowa,  and 
Mrs.  L.  L.  Estes,  of  Webster  City,  Iowa. 


S.  E.  Morse. 


Silas  E.  Morse  was  a  prominent  business  man  of  New  Woodstock  for 
nearly  sixty  years.  He  was  born  in  Wallingford,  Conn.,  in  1824,  moving 
with  his  father  to  Union  in  1834.  When  twelve  years  old,  he  went  to  New 
Woodstock  to  witness  the  raising  of  the  M.  E.  church,  a  circumstance 
which  he  did  not  forget,  as  he  was  that  day  treated  to  a  new  pair  of  shoes, 
in  those  days  an  event  of  rare  occurrence.  He  came  to  New  Woodstock  to 
work  about  1840,  serving  an  apprenticeship  of  three  years  at  his  trade  of 
wagon  and  carriage  making  with  Ralph  Bell.  He  afterward  became  Mr. 
Bell's  partner,  and  succeeded  to  the  business  in  1847.  In  later  years  he 
had  as  partners,  J.  L.  Savage,  Comptou  Ferguson,  and  Eastus  Seymour. 

In  1851  Mr.  Morse  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Ralph  Bell.  They  had 
one  daughter,  now  Mrs.  R.  I/.  Miller. 

Mr.  Morse  once  served  as  postmaster  of  the  village,  and  was  for  many 
years  trustee  of  the  Baptist  church,  of  the  cemetery  association,  and  also 
school  trustee.  He  was  largely  instrumental  in  building  up  the  west  end 
of  Main  street,  erecting  four  dwellings  himself,  and  two  with  J.  L.  Savage 
who  was  his  partner  at  that  time.  He  also  added  to  the  carriage  shops 
and  repaired  and  moved  the  Cleveland  house  to  its  present  site.  It  is  now 
used  as  a  market. 

He  was  always  ready  with  money  and  influence  to  further  the  business 
interests  of  the  place,  and  kept  his  business  running  constantly  until  his 
death  in  1899,  having  several  men  in  his  employ  for  periods  of  from  twenty 


HISTORY  OF   NEW   WOODSTOCK. 


to  forty  years.  He  became  owner  of  the  Bell  House,  which  was  the  first 
hotel  in  New  Woodstock.  It  is  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Mrs.  Morse, 
and  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Miller  and  their  daughter  Bell. 


John  Savage  and  Family. 


John  Savage  with  his  wife  and  five  children,  ranging  in  age  from  two 
to  ten  years,  came  in  1800,  with  an  ox  team  from  Vermont  to  New  Wood- 
stock. Mr.  Savage  was  a  sailor  in  early  life;  later  he  became  a  carpenter 
and  joiner.  Soon  after  he  came  to  New  Woodstock,  probably  having  pur- 
chased land  on  contract.  He  built  a  log  house  which  was  still  standing 
within  the  remembrance  of  some  of  his  grandchildren.  In  1807,  a  deed 
was  given  him  by  Frederick  Brim,  of  one  hundred  fifty  acres  of  land  in 
consideration  of  the  sum  of  five  hundred  dollars.  The  land  now  owned 
by  Joseph  Coley,  above  the  cheese  factory,  was  the  northern  boundary. 
John  Savage  owned  all  the  land  south  of  that  boundary  between  the  east 
and  west  roads  to  Cazeuovia,  as  far  as  Main  street  in  the  village  of  New 
Woodstock. 

Mr.  Savage  gave  the  land,  once  covered  with  maple  trees  and  consti- 
tuting his  "sugar  bush,"  as  the  site  for  the  Baptist  church.  He  also  gave 
the  older  part  of  the  cemetery  in  consideration  of  help  in  clearing  the  re- 
maining land.  His  wife,  Elizabeth,  was  the  first  secretary  of  the  Baptist 
Mite  Society,  formed  in  1812.  Mrs.  Savage  died  in  1826. 

John  Savage,  in  the  latter  years  of  his  life,  spent  much  time  in  trap- 
ping and  fishing.  He  died  in  1851,  aged  eighty-eight. 

Mr.  Savage's  three  sons  were  John,  Seth,  and  William.  John  and  Seth 
were  in  the  war  of  1812.  The  daughters  were  Betsey  [Greenman,]  Julia, 
who  married  Artemas  Gleason,  and  Harriet,  the  only  child  born  in  New 
Woodstock,  who  married  Orrin  Hendee. 

John  Savage,  Jr.,  is  buried  in  the  Lyon  cemetery  in  Nelson,  N.  Y.,  and 
is  the  only  one  of  the  six  children  not  buried  in  New  Woodstock.  His  only 
surviving  child  is  Mrs.  Ellen  Bump,  who  lives  in  her  father's  old  home  at 
Constine  Bridge. 

Seth,  born  in  1 792  at  Bellows  Falls,  Vermont,  lived  at  Union,  His 
farm  is  now  owned  by  John  Fuggle.  Mr.  Savage  was  the  father  of  ten 
children.  His  first  wife,  Almira  Gleason,  was  the  mother  of  five,  of  whom 
Lucia  Morris,  ofDixion,  Illnois,  is  the  only  one  living.  Emily  Elmore 
was  Mr.  Savage's  second  wife.  Her  surviving  children  are  Almira  Hill  of 
Delphi,  N.  Y.,  and  George  Savage.  Ellen,  who  died  a  few  years  since, 
was  the  wife  of  James  R.  Fenner,  of  Delphi. 


§ 

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HISTORY  OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  71 

William,  usually  called  "Deacon"  Savage,  was  born  in  1794.  He  mar- 
ried Almira  Damon.  He  owned  the  farm  which  he  sold  to  William 
Holmes,  and  which  was  brought  by  Lester  LaMunion  in  1866.  The  place 
in  Floodport  also  belonged  to  him  which  is  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Louisa 
Drake.  Later  in  life  Mr.  Savage  moved  into  the  village  of  New  Wood- 
stock, owning  the  place  that  is  now  the  Baptist  parsonage.  Atone  time 
he  was  employed  as  stone  cutter  on  the  Erie  Canal. 

William  Savage  had  seven  children.  The  oldest,  James  LeRoy,  was  a 
mechanic  and  always  lived  in  New  Woodstock.  He  was  a  partner  of  S.  E. 
Morse  in  the  carriage  business  and  was  with  him  instrumental  in  building 
up  the  southwest  part  of  the  village.  He  was  also  one  of.  the  partners  in 
the  Glove  Factory  when  it  was  in  operation.  He  died  in  1891.  His  wife 
was  Elizabeth  Perkins,  of  Cazenovia.  Mrs.  Savage  now  lives  with  their 
only  child,  Irving  A.  Savage  of  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

The  other  children  of  William  Savage  were  Julia,  Elizabeth  [Tabor] 
Crandall,  Delana  [Holmes]  [Davis,]  Lucretia  [Slocuin,]  W.  Evans  Sav- 
age, who  died  during  the  Civil  war  from  wounds  received  in  battle,  and 
Caroline,  the  only  surviving  child,  who  married  Henry  Everts  of  Erieville, 
N.  Y.,  and  now  resides  in  Hamilton. 


Roswell  Savage. 


John  Savage,  senior,  gave  his  nephew,  Roswell  Savage,  an  acre  of  land 
north  of  where  Fred  Mann  now  lives,  in  payment  for  a  pair  of  boots. 
Roswell  Savage  built  a  tannery  on  that  plot  of  ground.  The  tannery  was 
afterward  moved,  however,  southwest  on  the  West  Woodstock  road  and 
converted  into  a  cider  mill.  Roswell  Savage  bought  of  his  uncle  the 
northwest  corner  of  Main  street,  and  built  the  house  afterward  owned  by 
Conrad  Cook,  later  by  EHuria  Curtis,  and  now  by  Mrs.  Chatfield.  Mr. 
Savage's  children  were  Seth,  Enoch,  Polly,  and  Sarah  Ann  [Adams.] 
The  last  mentioned  now  resides  in  Cuba,  N.  Y. 


Greenman. 


Gardner  Greenman,  born  in  Stepheutown,  N.  Y.,  in  1794,  was  married 
in  Cazenovia  in  1816,  to  Betsey  Savage,  born  in  Rockingham,  Vt.,  in  1797. 
They  had  eight  children.  Daloss,  Edwin  and  Seth  were  born  in  DeRuyter  ; 
Julia  [Card],  born  in  New  Woodstock ;  Malvina  A.,  born  in  Antwerp,  died 
in  New  Woodstock  in  1847;  Louise  M.,  Marietta  C.,  and  Harrison  H.,  were 


72  HISTORY   OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


born  in  New  Woodstock.  Gardner  Greeman  died  in  New  Woodstock  in 
1858.  His  wife,  who  is  remembered  for  her  efficiency  in  church  work,  died 
in  Shabbona,  111.,  in  1873. 

Deloss  married  Clarissa  Smith,  of  Cazenovia,  and  has  two  children, 
Mrs.  Hutchins,  of  Cazenovia,  and  Mrs.  Barber,  of  Fenner,  with  whom  he 
lives.  Edwin  died  in  1876  in  Pontiac,  111.  He  married  Maria  Griggs,  of 
Cazenovia.  Seth  married  Eliza  Sweetland,  of  Cazenovia,  and  died  in  1881. 
Their  children  live  in  Cazenovia.  Louise  M.,  married  Harrison  L.  Wheat, 
and  lives  in  Skiana,  Ind.  Marietta  married  Jeremiah  D.  Tucker  and  lives 
in  Valparaiso.  Ind.  Harrison  married  Lizzie  E.  Earl,  of  Metamore,  111., 
and  died  in  Valparaiso,  Ind.,  in  1878. 


Hendee. 


Captain  John  Hendee,  born  1770,  was  of  English  parentage  and  came 
to  New  Woodstock  from  Ashfield,  Conn.,  1806,  locating  on  Hendee  Hill, 
about  one  and  a  half  miles  north  of  the  village,  on  the  west  road  to  Caze- 
novia. He  was  married  four  times  and  was  the  father  of  thirteen  children, 
five  of  whom  died  when  young.  The  first  wife,  Lucy  Martin,  had  no 
children.  Annis  Russ  Hendee's  children  were  Lucy,  John,  William, 
Orrin,  and  Annis.  Lucy  married  Alvah  Holmes  and  was  the  mother  of 
William,  who  married  Delana  Savage,  Polly  [Scott  Hunt]  Annis,  Sylvauus, 
and  Charles.  John  lived  to  be  nearly  ninety-eight.  William  settled  in  Ohio. 
Orrin,  born  1798,  in  Connecticut,  married  Harriet,  daughter  of  John  Savage, 
and  lived  at  Shed's  Corners  many  years.  They  had  seven  children, 
Elizabeth,  [Colwell],  living  in  Sherburne;  John,  who  died  ;  Alpheus,  who 
married  Julia  deClercq  and  is  the  only  grandson  of  Captain  John  Hendee 
now  living  in  New  Woodstock  ;  William,  who  lives  in  Syracuse,  Helen, 
who  died,  Mary  [Northrup],  living  in  Norwich,  and  Cornelia,  who  died  in 
1845- 

Annis  Hendee  married  Conrad  Cook.  Her  children  were  Enos  and 
Chauncey. 

John  Hendee's  children  by  Esther  Twist,  the  third  wife,  were  Eliza 
and  Alpheus.  His  last  wife  was  a  widow,  Polly  Dryer.  She  was  the 
mother  of  Julia,  who  married  John  Ferguson. 

Captain  Hendee  died  in  1824  and  his  widow  married  Consider  Amsden. 
Mrs.  Amsden  was  only  thirteen  when  she  was  married  to  Mr.  Dryer. 


John  Ferguson 
T.  M.  Avery 


Compton  Ferguson 
J.  H.  Knickerbocker 


HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK.  73 


Thurber. 


William  Thurber  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  in  New  Woodstock.  He 
came  here  from  Connecticut  and  settled  a  part  of  the  farm  now  owned  by 
Lorell  Thurber,  the  land  probably  being  taken  from  the  Holland  Land 
Company.  William  Thurber  was  born  June  9,  1774.  He  married  Roxy 
White,  September  19,  1802.  Three  children  were  born  to  them:  Edward, 
June  12,  1804;  Mary,  October  6,  1806;  Lydia,  May  3,  1809. 

Edward  Thurber  was  married  to  Maria  Bond,  July  2,  1829.  They  had 
two  children:  Jennett  M.  April  12,  1830;  John  E.,  April  30,  1843. 

John  E.  Thurber  married  Sarah  J.  Ferguson,  June  30,  1874.  One  child, 
I/orell  F.  was  born  June  21,  1875. 

Lorell  F.  Thurber  was  married  to  Carrie  F.  Main  February  5,  1896. 
They  have  two  children — Gladys  W.,  Dec.  i,  1896;  Cecil  J.,  Dec.  29,  1898. 
These  two  children  are  the  fourth  generation  born  on  the  farm,  and  the 
fifth  generation  to  live  there.  Edward  Thurber  spent  all  his  life,  with  the 
exception  of  eight  years,  on  this  farm  where  he  was  born  in  a  log  house. 

William  Thurber  died  Nov.  9,  1857.  Roxy  Thurber  died  January  n, 
1851.  Edward  Thurb2r  died  Aug.  26,  1892.  Maria  Thurber  died  July  3, 
1863.  Jennett  Thurber  died  September  8,  1874.  John  E.  Thurber  died  in 
Eldorado,  Kansas,  March  30,  1881. 


Ferguson. 


John  and  Compton  Ferguson  were  born  in  the  north  of  Ireland  and 
came  to  this  country  about  1838,  settling  near  Amsterdam,  N.  Y.,  and  com- 
ing to  DeRuyter  a  year  or  two  later.  They  were  both  blacksmiths  by 
trade.  Compton  came  to  New  Woodstock  in  1846,  and  went  into  business 
in  a  shop  standing  where  the  hardware  store  now  stands.  This  shop  was 
burned  in  1849,  so  he  went  into  the  shop  on  DeRuyter  street.  John  came 
to  New  Woodstock  in  1848  and  went  into  business  with  Compton.  They 
remained  together  until  1864,  when  John  put  up  a  shop  wThich  is  now  the 
upright  part  of  the  Methodist  parsonage.  He  worked  there  until  he  en- 
listed in  the  Civil  war  in  the  2nd  N.  Y.,  Cav.,  at  the  last  call  for  troops. 
Compton  also  enlisted  at  the  same  time.  After  their  return,  neither  was 
well  enough  to  work  at  his  trade.  John  was  in  a  meat  market  for  a  time 
also  in  the  grocery  with  O.  S.  Smith.  In  the  year  1871,  May  i8th,  he  was 
appointed  postmaster  and  remained  so  until  his  death.  For  a  number  of 


74  HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK. 

years  he  had  a  grocery  store  in  connection  with  the  postoffice  in  the  build- 
ing now  occupied  by  Wm.  Huntley's  hardware  store,  the  office  afterward 
being  moved  into  the  Jaquith  block,  where  it  was  at  the  time  he  died. 

John  bought  the  house  now  owned  by  Andrew  McCoy,  of  John  Loomis 
when  it  was  first  built,  and  lived  there  until  1866  when  he  sold  it  to  R.  J. 
Sunderlin.  John  Ferguson  was  born  October  12,  1813,  and  died  January 
2$,  1890.  His  first  wife  was  Olivia  Reed  of  DeRuyter.  One  child  was  born 
to  them  July  12,  1847.  Emma  S.  was  married  to  H.  C.  Stowell  Feb.  14, 
1867,  and  died  February  u.  1869.  Mr.  Ferguson  was  married  to  Julia  M. 
Hendee  October  6,  1852.  Three  children  were  born  to  them.  Hattie  M., 
born  June  11,1853,  died  October  I,  1854,  Sarah  J.  born  June  21,  1855,  mar- 
ried John  E.  Thurber  June  30,1874;  KittieL.,  born  September  17,  1866,  mar- 
ried Ernest  E.  Poole  September  20,  1888;  Mrs.  Julia  M.  Ferguson  died 
July  17,  1888. 

Cornpton  Ferguson  was  in  business  with  S.  E.  Morse  for  a  time,  after- 
ward being  on  the  road  for  seventeen  years  as  a  commercial  traveler,  re- 
presenting a  glove  firm  in  Gloversville,  also  the  Standard  Wagon  Co.,  of 
Cortland.  He  owned  and  lived  in  the  house  now  owned  by  Mrs.  James 
Allen  fora  longtime,  moving  to  Rome  in  1872.  He  was  born  March  12, 
1823,  and  died  December  7,  1898.  He  married  Sarah  F.  Allen  of  DeRuyter, 
October  n,  1844.  One  child  was  born  to  them:  Jennie  E.,  March  13,  1850; 
married  to  C.  A.  Nicholson  of  Rome,  November  30,  1871,  died  February  2, 
1877. 


Carpenter. 


Two  brothers,  Nathaniel  and  Willard  Carpenter,  came  from  Wood- 
stock, Conn.,  in  1802  or  1803.  Nathaniel  lived  at  West  Woodstock.  He 
was  the  second  landlord  in  the  tavern  on  the  hill  and  was,  at  one  time, 
the  sawyer  in  Jacob  Post's  mill.  He  was,  also,  a  blacksmith  and  carpen- 
ter. He  married  Lucy,  sister  of  Salmon  Gage.  They  had  ten  children, 
Elisha,  Luther,  Gilbert,  Otis,  Major,  Lucy,  Emmeline,  Silura,  Anna,  and 
Nancy.  Mr.  Carpenter  and  most  of  his  family  finally  settled  in  Pompey. 

Silura  was  the  third  child,  and  the  only  one  born  in  Woodstock.  The 
snow  was  so  deep  on  her  birthday,  May  5,  1807,  that  the  roads  had  to  be 
ploughed.  She  married  for  her  first  husband  Curtis  Griffith,  and  had 
three  children.  The  son  died  in  infancy. 

Her  second  husband  was  Harvey  Allen.  She  survived  him  many  years, 
living  with  her  daughter,  Acta  until  1898,  when  she  died  at  the  age  of 
ninety-one.  She  perfectly  understood  the  almost  lost  art  of  carding, 
spinning  and  weaving.  When  Cleveland  was  president,  Mrs.  Cleveland 


Photo  bv  Jessamine  Ellsworth 

Carpenter  House 


Photo  by  Harry  Diefendorf 

Sylvanus  Gage's  House 


HISTORY   OF   NEW    WOODSTOCK.  75 

owned  a  black  dog  that  was  at  one  time  in  Cazenovia.  While  there  it  was 
sheared,  and  Mrs.  Allen  took  some  of  the  hair,  carded  and  spun  it,  and 
knit  a  pair  of  gloves  which  she  sent  to  Mr.  Cleveland.  She  received  a 
personal  reply,  and  a  present  of  five  dollars  from  him.  Her  daughter, 
Acta  Griffeth,  married  the  late  Thomas  Eastman,  who  worked  for  John  C. 
Loomis  in  the  tannery  at  Floodport,  and  afterward  for  the  Worlock 
brothers.  They  have  been  residents  of  New  Woodstock  more  than  fifty 
years.  Their  four  children  are  Delana,  Mann  Barrett,  Elisha,  who  mar- 
ried Eva  Hubbard  and  lives  in  Biughamton,  Dwight  M.,  of  Rome,  and 
Sarah  Clancy  of  Cortland. 

Capt.  Willard  Carpenter,  called  captain  because  he  was  commander  of 
a  state  militia  company,  was  born  in  1780.  His  first  wife  was  Hannah 
Keeney.  They  had  twelve  children;  Ezekiel,  David  D.,  Amanda  [Ains- 
worth,]  Sarah  [Cole  Thomas,]  Mary  [Ainsworth,]  Lucy,  who  died. 
Hiram,  who  married  a  Conable,  is  eighty-two  years  old  and  lives  in 
Webster  City,  Iowa;  Celestia  [Post,]  mother  of  Charles,  Marbia  [Pratt,] 
Ella  [Thompson,]  and  William;  Fannie,  Erastus,  living  in  Iowa;  Julia, 
and  Ardelia  [Sholes,]  who  lives  in  Hampton,  Iowa. 

Ezekiel  was  married  three  times  and  lived  at  West  Woodstock  in  the 
old  tavern  on  the  hill.  He  kept  a  grocery  on  the  southwest  corner  of  the 
road,  and  in  his  later  years  in  the  basement  of  the  old  tavern.  He  made 
matches  in  square  blocks,  using  a  knife  to  make  the  divisions  between  the 
matches.  His  first  wife,  the  mother  of  eight  children,  was  Sarah  Marie 
Davis.  The  children  were  Lyman,  Calvin,  Albert,  John,  Adelbert,  James 
Ada,  [McKevitt]  and  Cornelia  [Worlock.]  The  youngest  child,  James, 
was  killed  at  the  battle  of  Bull  Run. 

Willard  Carpenter  lived  about  thirty  years  on  the  hill  farm  now  in  the 
possession  of  Deloss  Burdick.  About  1854  he  moved  on  the  Jedediah  Morse 
farm  where  Isaac  Morse  first  lived.  Mr.  Carpenter  died  there  in  1859. 
His  second  wife  was  Thedy  Dewey  [Cole,]  a  sister  of  his  first  wife  and  a 
widow  with  one  son,  Elijah  Cole,  who  married  his  cousin  Sarah.  Their 
daughter  Amanda  married  William  Estes.  Both  died  several  years  ago. 
Their  children  were  Nellie  [Poyle]  of  Morrisville,  the  twins  Frank  and 
Fred  of  Ilion,  who  is  a  carriage  manufacturer,  and  George  of  Norwich. 


John  Peck. 


John  Peck, born  in  Stamford,  N.  Y.,  September  n,  1780,  went  withhis 
father  to  Cheuango  Valley  in  1795  and  there  married  Sarah  Ferris,  daugh- 
ter of  Israel  Ferris,  August  20,  1801.  He  commenced  preaching  early  in 
life,  and  in  1804,  settled  in  Cazenovia,  N.  Y.,  as  a  Baptist  minister,  and 


76  HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

there  resided  until  his  death.  He  was  a  distinguished  minister  in  his  de- 
nomination, among  the  foremost  in  its  religious  acd  benevolent  enter- 
prises. His  wife,  born  May  7,  1784,  died  in  Cazenovia,  September  21, 
1847.  He  died  December  15,  1849  in  New  Nork  City,  being  there  as  agent 
for  the  Home  Mission  Society.  "Elder"  Peck's  home  from  1842  to  1849  was 
in  New  Woodstock  village  in  the  house  now  owned  by  F.  C.  Covil. 

His  children  were  Darius,  born  in  Norwich,  Chenango  County,  N.  Y., 
June  15,  1802.  He  prepared  for  college  under  Rev.  Daniel  Hascall  and 
Mr.  Zenas  Morse,  Principal  of  Hamilton  Academy,  N.  Y.,  and  entered  the 
Sophomore  class  of  Hamilton  College,  N.  Y.,  at  which  he  graduated  in 
1825.  He  settled  as  a  lawyer  in  Hudson,  N.  Y.  He  was  appointed  by  the 
Governor  and  Senate  of  New  York,  as  Recorder  of  the  City  of  Hudson. 
He  was  for  several  years  Superintendent  of  Schools  and  Master  of  Chan- 
cery. He  was  also  appointed  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common  Pleas  of  the 
County  of  Columbia,  N.  Y.  He  was  married  to  Harriet  M.  Hudson,  of 
Troy,  N.  Y.,  September  12,  1836,  who  died  April  18,  1863. 

Mary  Peck  was  born  in  Norwich,  N.  Y.,  January  25,  1804.  She  mar- 
ried John  Fiske,  of  Cazenovia,  September  20,  1821,  died  in  Cazenovia, 
December  10,  1855.  John,  born  in  Cazenovia,  N.  Y.,  April  11,  1808,  died 
February  16,  1810.  Philetus,  born  in  Cazenovia,  November  28,  1809.  He 
graduated  from  Hamilton  Literary  and  Theological  Institute,  in  1838,  was 
ordained  in  March,  1839,  and  in  June  settled  with  the  church  in  Owego, 
N.  Y.  He  died  of  Malignant  Dysentery,  October  6,  1847.  He  was  a  devot- 
ed pastor,  an  instructive  and  earnest  preacher,  and  was  distinguished  for 
his  benevolence,  frankness,  sound  judgment,  executive  ability  and  de- 
cision of  character.  He  married  Nancy  Morse,  daughter  of  Isaac  Morse, 
May  30,  1831.  Julia,  born  in  Cazenovia,  March  13,  1816,  married  Wm.  M. 
Pratt,  August  22,  1839,  die(i  in  Crawfordsville,  Indiana,  October  14,  1839. 
Linus  M.,  born  in  Cazenovia,  February  3,  1818.  He  entered  Hamilton 
College  in  September,  1838,  graduated  July  1841,  receiving  one  of  the  high- 
est honors  of  his  class.  He  was  licensed  to  preach  in  August,  1844.  After 
a  regular  course  at  Hamilton  Theological  Institution  of  two  years,  he 
graduated  in  October,  1846.  He  was  called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  Bap- 
tist church  in  Hamilton,  N.  Y.  He  died  October  4,  1847,  of  Malignant 
Dysentery.  He  naturally  possessed  a  vigorous  and  logical  mind  with 
superior  powers  of  analysis.  He  was  kind  hearted,  zealous,  and  laborious, 
an  excellent  public  speaker,  distinguished  for  his  chaste  and  manly  elo- 
quence .  He  married  Cordelia  C.  Kendrick,  youngest  daughter  of  Rev. 
Nathaniel  Kendrick  of  Hamilton,  N.  Y, 


HISTORY  OF   NEW   WOODSTOCK.  77 


Coley. 


Joseph  Coley,  born  in  1765  ill  London,  England,  was  a  jeweler's  son. 
The  family  came  to  Johnstown,  N.  Y.,  when  Joseph  was  eight  years  old. 
When  twenty-one  he  married  Mary  Willess  and  lived  a  few  years  in  Sar- 
atoga, then  moved  to  DeRuyter.  purchasing  a  farm  which  included  De- 
Ruyter  Springs.  While  in  DeRuyter  he  acted  as  the  agent  of  John  Linck- 
laen  and  sold  laud  to  the  Friends. 

In  1806  Mr.  Coley  moved  to  New  Woodstock,  locating  on  land  now 
owned  by  Leonard  Freeborn.  He  lived  in  a  log  house  at  the  foot  of  the 
hill  east  of  where  John  Freeborn  now  lives.  He  was  ordained  as  a  Baptist 
minister  in  1810,  organized  a  church  in  the  town  of  Eaton  in  1816,  becom- 
ing its  first  pastor.  In  educational  and  revival  work  he  was  associated 
with  Elders  Peck,  Bennett  and  Kendrick. 

He  was  a  preacher  of  unusual  power,  a  man  of  positive  convictions, 
fearless  and  outspoken  in  whatever  he  believed  to  be  the  truth.  He  pos- 
sessed a  voice  of  wonderful  depth  and  fullness,  and  was  a  fluent  speaker,  us- 
ing no  notes. 

Elder  Coley  had  ten  children.  One  died  when  his  DeRuyter  log  house 
was  burned.  The  remaining  nine  were  Willess,  who  went  west  and  died 
near  Loamis ;  Betsey  (Johnson),  Patty  (Goodell),  Nancy  (Perkins), 
Clarissa  (Sexton),  William,  J.  Madison,  and  Hubbard,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  sixteen. 

J.  Madison  Coley,  born  in  1806,  followed  in  his  father's  footsteps  and 
became  a  Baptist  preacher.  He  received  a  college  education,  attending 
Madison,  now  Colgate  University,  and  afterward  going  to  Newton,  Mass- 
achusetts. He  was  ordained  at  Charlemont,  Mass.,  and  was  pastor  of  nine 
churches.  One  of  the  number  was  the  First  Baptist  church  of  Albany. 
While  pastor  there,  he  baptized  four  hundred  persons.  The  later  years  of 
his  life  were  spent  in  the  west.  He  died  in  San  Jose,  Cal. 

William  Coley  was  born  in  1804.  He  learned  the  trade  of  harness 
making  of  Hammond  Short,  of  DeRuyter,  but,  preferring  farm  life,  he 
bought  the  farm  on  Coley  Hill,  opposite  his  father's.  He  married  Louisa, 
daughter  of  William  Sims,  one  of  the  early  pioneers  of  Cazenovia.  In  1845 
Elder  Coley's  wife  died,  after  which  until  his  death  in  1856  at  the  age  of 
ninety-one,  he  lived  in  the  family  of  his  son,  William.  When  Elder  Coley 
was  past  ninety,  and  had  forgotten  almost  everything  except  the  bible  and 
a  covenant-keeping  God,  he  came  out  of  his  room  one  evening  with  a  cane 
in  each  hand,  to  see  if  it  was  eight  o'clock,  his  usual  bed-time.  A  visitor, 
Rev.  George  Scott,  of  Nebraska,  once  a  resident  of  the  family,  said  to  him, 


78  HISTORY  OF  NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

"  Grandpa,  how  do  you  do?  "  After  a  time  he  realized  who  was  speaking 
to  him,  and  answered,  "God  is  taking  the  pins  out  of  this  old  frame  of 
mine,  one  by  one,  and  in  a  little  while  I  shall  tumble  to  pieces  and  drop 
into  my  grave."  He  said  no  more,  looked  at  the  clock  and  returned  to  his 
room.  He  died  within  the  year. 

•  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Coley  spent  most  of  their  lives  on  their  farm. 
The  last  few  years  they  resided  in  the  village  of  New  Woodstock,  where 
they  both  died  in  1879.  Their  children  were  Ellen  M.,  and  Joseph  W. 
Ellen  lived  with  her  parents  during  their  lifetime,  and  afterward  in  her 
brother's  family  until  her  death  in  1889.  Joseph  W.  Coley  married  Helen 
Wellington,  of  Cazenovia,  and  lived  for  a  time  on  a  part  of  the  farm  for- 
merly owned  by  his  grandfather.  He  afterward  sold  it  to  Leonard 
Freeborn,  and  now  owns  and  occupies  the  farm  which  was  his  father's  and 
which  is  one  of  the  finest  in  the  vicinity.  He  has  a  dairy  of  fine,  full- 
blooded  Holsteins.  His  houses  on  both  farms  have  been  destroyed  by  fire, 
but,  in  each  case,  another  and  a  better  dwelling  soon  occupied  the  old 
site. 

The  children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J.  W.  Coley  are  Harrison  W.,  a  lawyer 
in  Oneida,  N.  Y.,  and  Addie  Louise,  who  is  with  her  parents.  Harrison 
W.  owns  the  Gilbert  Jenkins  farm  near  Webster's  Station  and  the  Fiske 
farm  at  West  Woodstock.  He  has  made  extensive  repairs  on  both  places 
and  they  are  model  farms. 


Stanton. 


Thomas  Stanton,  born  1615,  embarked  in  1635  from  London,  England, 
on  the  merchantman,  Bonaveutura,  for  Virginia.  He  went  to  Boston  in 
1636  and  became  Indian  interpreter  for  Gov.  Winthrop  with  the  Nahantic 
Sachem.  In  the  IVquot  war  1636-37  his  bravery  is  mentioned  and  his 
services  as  interpreter  recorded  as  invaluable.  As  Interpreter  General  of 
the  New  England  Colonies  from  1636  to  1670,  his  name  is  connected  with 
almost  every  Indian  transaction  on  record.  About  1637  he  married  Ann, 
daughter  of  Dr.  Thomas  Lord,  who  received  in  1632  the  first  medical  license 
given  in  the  New  England  Colonies.  Their  first  home  was  in  New  Hart- 
ford. Conn.,  on  the  site  now  occupied  by  the  large  factory  buildings  of 
Jewell's  Leather  Belting  Company.  In  1649  Thomas  Stanton  received  a 
grant  of  six  acres  of  land  from  the  General  Courts,  and  was  the  first  white 
inhabitant  on  the  Paukatuck  River  where  he  established  a  trading  house. 
In  1652  he  received  three  hundred  acres  next  to  his  former  grant  and  in 
1667  two  hundred  fifty  acres  for  his  services  to  the  colony.  He  served  as 
County  Commissioner  and  Judge  twelve  consecutive  years  and  was  a  niem- 


T.  A.  Stanton 


Photo  by  Mrs.  F,  L.  Cunningham 

J.  A.  Stanton's  Barn 


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her  of  the  Connecticut  General  Assembly  seven  years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stan- 
ton  removed  to  Stonington,  Conn.,  in  1658,  where  they  permanently  re- 
mained. They  had  six  sons  and  four  daughters.  The  sons  inherited  their 
father's  ability  to  speak  Indian  dialects  and  were  much  in  demand  as  inter- 
preters, one  of  them  acting  in  that  capacity  in  King  Phillip's  war.  From 
the  Pequot  war  in  1636  to  the  civil  war  the  Stanton  family  has  been  well 
represented  among  its  country's  defenders. 

Oliver  Stanton  of  the  sixth  generation,  born  1780,  imitating  the  ex- 
ample of  his  illustrious  ancestor,  left  his  home  in  Stoningtou,  Conn., 
early  in  the  nineteeth  century,  making  the  long  trip  to  New  Woodstock, 
N.  Y.,  by  ox  team.  He  took  up  a  tract  of  land  located  on  what  is  known 
as  the  Stanton  and  Moffett  Hill,  and  also  at  one  time  owned  land  in  the 
village  of  New  Woodstock.  His  first  wife,  Cynthia  Underwood,  died  in 
1806  at  New  Woodstock  leaving  one  son,  Oliver,  who  married  Sophia  Bug- 
bee.  In  1827  he  moved  to  Medina  and  died  there  in  1869.  In  1807  Mr. 
Stanton  married  Rhoda  Underwood  of  Woodstock,  Conn.  They  died  in 
1854. 

They  had  a  family  of  five  children.  The  daughter,  Cynthia  born 
in  1820,  who  married  Benjamin  Baum,  at  one  time  a  merchant  in  New 
Woodstock,  is  now  living  in  Syracuse  with  her  son,  Dr.  H.  C.  Baum.  The 
four  sons  were  Alvin,  born  in  1809,  who  located  near  DeRuyter;  Charles, 
born  in  1824,  who  never  married;  Wm.  B.,  born  1817,  who  was  in  the  mer- 
cantile business  with  B.  W.  Baum  in  New  Woodstock,  afterward  removed 
to  Syracuse  and  died  there.  The  second  son,  Schuyler  V.,  born  in  1812, 
became  the  owner  of  his  father's  farm,  and  always  lived  in  New  Wood- 
stock. He  married  Huldah  Martin  in  1848.  Mrs.  Stanton  died  in  1871. 
Mr.  Stanton  survived  her  twenty  years.  They  had  three  sons,  Oliver,  now 
a  resident  of  DeRuyter;  Charles  a  prosperous  merchant  in  Westerly,  R.  I., 
and  J.  Albert,  the  second  son,  born  in  1850,  who  owns  the  original  farm  of 
his  grandfather,  which  with  the  additions  made,  now  consists  of  nearly 
three  hundred  acres. 

The  outlook  obtained  from  climbing  Stanton  Hill  well  repays  the  ef- 
fort made.  Looking  notheast  one  gets  a  fine  bird's-eye  view  of  New 
Woodstock  in  the  Valley.  On  a  clear  day,  Cazenovia  Lake,  seven  miles 
away,  and  Oneida  Lake,  thirty  miles  distant,  may  be  seen  with  the  naked 
eye.  Turning  then  to  the  immediate  surroundings,  it  is  evident  that  Mr. 
Stanton  is  a  practical,  progressive  farmer.  This  is  shown  in  part  by  his 
model  barn,  one  of  the  finest  in  the  county,  fitted  up  with  all  modern  con- 
veniences. He  keeps  a  dairy  varying  from  forty  to  forty-five  cows,  be- 
sides a  variety  of  young  stock.  He  has  been  salesman  of  the  New  Wood- 
stock cheese  factory  for  several  years,  and  is  one  of  the  D.  L.  &  W.  repre- 
sentatives of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  F.  S.  M.  P.  A.  Mr.  Stanton 
was  assessor  of  the  first  election  district  of  Cazenovia  six  years.  In  1870, 


8o  HISTORY   OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

he  married  Carrie  E.,    only  child   ofM.  W.    Richmond.     They  have  one 
son,  Edwin  M.  Stanton,  of  DeRuyter. 

John  Morse  Stanton,  brother  of  Oliver  Stanton,  born  inMonson,  Conn., 
came  to  New  Woodstock  in  1820.  In  1827  he  married  Elvira  Martin.  He 
was  a  school-teacher  and  book  seller.  He  died  in  1839;  h*8  wife.  i"  l848. 
They  had  three  sons  and  two  daughters.  The  second  son,  James,  born 
1830,  was  a  sailor  until  1853.  At  that  time  he  married  Janette  Pattison,  of 
Cazenovia,  and  a  few  year  later  entered  the  ministry  in  the  M.  E.  church. 
They  moved  to  Florida  in  1888. 


Estes. 

Gideon  Anthony,  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  came  from  Rhode  Island  in 
1806,  locating  between  the  farms  now  owned  by  Seymour  Holmes  and 
Mrs.  C.  H.  Perkins.  His  only  child  married  John  Estes,  and  he  adopted 
and  brought  with  him  Joseph,  the  oldest  grandchild,  then  six  years  old. 
A  few  years  later,  Mrs.  Estes'  husband  dying,  she  came  to  New  Wood- 
stock with  the  remainder  of  her  children,  Gideon,  Daniel,  James,  John, 
William,  Patience,  Cynthia,  and  Eliza.  Joseph  married  Sarah  Bond,  lived 
for  a  time  in  Madison,  N.  Y.(  then  in  Juddville  and  finally  east  of  New 
Woodstock,  toward  Shed's  Corners.  His  youngest  daughter,  Sarah 
Northrup,  now  lives  on  the  place.  Hiram  Estes  lives  in  New  Woodstock, 
Cornelia  and  Louisa  died  several  years  ago. 

Gideon,  the  second  son,  settled  in  Delphi,  N.  Y.  His  son,  Charles, 
resides  in  Greene.  Mary  married  and  lives  in  Pompey  Hollow. 

Daniel  married  and  made  his  home  in  Utica. 

James  married  Nancy  Moore.     Their  home  was  on  the  eastern  part  of 
what  is  now  Warren  Lee's  farm.     Their  children  were  Levi,  Nelson,  Lewis 
L.,  Mary  and  Cynthia.    All  are  dead  except  Lewis  L.,  who  lives  in  Web 
ster  City,  Iowa. 

John  married  Jane  Allen,  Tryphena  Tucker,  and  Lucretia  Allen.  His 
children  were  Dwight,  who  married  Sarah  Kinney  and  lives  in  Shed's 
Corners,  Cynthia  Tucker,  William,  Amanda  Cole,  and  Gideon,  who  lives 
in  the  west,  and  who  married  Charlotte  Lyon  for  his  first  wife.  John  be- 
came the  owner  of  his  grandfather's  place. 

Patience  and  Cynthia  were  the  first  and  second  wives  of  Darius  Bond. 

Eliza  married  Horace  Burdick,  of  DeRuyter. 

Gideon  Anthony  had  a  pension,  and,  being  able  to  live  on  the  proceeds 
of  his  farm,  he  saved  his  pension  money  in  silver  dollars,  putting  it  in  a 
chest  until  it  amounted  to  six  hundred  silver  dollars.  He  left  a  will,  giv- 


HISTORY   OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK.  8 1 

ing  to  his  grandson,  Joseph  Estes,  six  acres  of  land  and  one-third  of  the 
pension  money.  The  remaining  two-thirds  of  the  money  was  given  to  his 
grandsons,  James  and  Gideon  Estes.  His  farm,  aside  from  the  six  acres, 
he  left  to  John  Estes.  His  clothing  was  to  be  given  to  his  great  grand- 
children, Hiram  and  Levi  Estes,  a  suit  of  Revolutionary  clothes  becoming 
Hiram's.  Mr.  Anthony  died  in  1841,  and  is  buried  in  the  Lyon  cemetery 
at  Nelson. 


Scott. 


"  The  Scott  family  whose  life  interests  were  largely  identified  with  New 
Woodstock,  were  of  Scotch-Irish  origin.  Thomas  Scott,  my  grandfather, 
lived  and  reared  his  family  in  the  town  of  St.  Charles,  Donegall,  Ireland. 
Four  of  his  sons,  William,  James,  George  and  Samuel,  came  to  this  coun- 
try very  near  the  beginning  of  the  last  century.  They  all  settled  in  Madi- 
son county,  William,  James  and  George  on  farms  in  Nelson,  a  few  miles  east 
of  "Woodstock."  Samuel,  being  but  a  boy  then,  lived  with  my  father, 
and  "worked  out." 

In  a  few  years  William  moved  with  his  family  to  Albany,  and  died  soon 
after,  leaving  a  family  of  eleven  sons.  I  don't  know  what  became  of  them. 
James  spent  much  of  his  life  in  that  vicinity  and  finally  moved  to  West- 
field,  in  Chautauqua  Co.  I  remember  him  as  a  white-haired  old  man. 
There  were  several  sons  and  a  daughter  in  the  family.  Samuel,  after  a  few 
years,  became  foreman  on  General  I/edyard's  large  farm  at  Cazenovia. 
While  there  he  married  RozinaChapin,  and  soon  settled  on  a  small  farm 
near  Constine  Bridge,  where  he  lived  a  long  and  successful  life.  Though 
not  without  faults,  he  was  honored  and  respected  by  all  whoLknew  him. 
He  died  on  his  eighty-sixth  birthday,  leaving  to  all  his  children  good  homes 
surrounding  the  old  homestead.  Most  of  them,  so  far  as  I  know,  live 
there  now. 

George,  the  father  of  the  Woodstock  family  of  Scotts,  married  Lydia, 
sister  of  John  Holmes,  father  of  John  and  Edward  Holmes,  of  Cazenovia. 
He  remained  on  the  old  farm  some  three  miles  east  of  the  village,  until  his 
death,  caused  by  a  log  rolling  on  him  in  1824.  This  sudden  event  was  a 
terrible  blow  to  the  family.  His  right  arm  was  crushed  and  soon  mortified, 
and  six  days  closed,  the  scene,  and  left  my  mother  with  the  children, 
eight  of  us,  Samuel,  Sabrina  (Slocum),  Jane  (Hunt),  Jedediah,  Katherine 
(Judson),  Thomas,  George,  and  Nellie  (Webber),  ranging  all  the  way  from 
two  months  to  sixteen  years.  To  say  we  were  poor,  very  poor,  hardly  tells 
it.  God  only  know  the  extremity  of  our  poverty.  I  remember  scenes  in 


82  HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK. 

our  experience  which  my  lips  have  never  told  and  my  pen  shall  never 
write.  Our  mother — yes,  she  was  a  MOTHER.  I  don't  know  how  to 
write  the  name  large  enough.  To  write  it  in  gold  and  surround  with  it 
earth's  richest  and  rarest  gems  would  not  be  sufficient.  What  she  en- 
dured for  us  can  never  be  told.  It  is  an  honor  to  have  descended  from 
such  a  mother.  Every  remembrance  of  her  is  precious  to  me.  The  detail 
of  our  lives  would  take  too  much  space,  and  if  written  would  be  of  little 
interest  to  any  one. 

As  to  myself,  being  the  only  survivor  of  the  family,  for  it  is  now  thirty 
years  since  the  last  one  was  taken,  it  will  not  be  out  of  place  for  me  to  say 
that  in  the  summer  of  1851, 1  received  an  appointment  as  a  missionary  from 
the  American  Baptist  Home  Mission  society,  and  immediately  settled  in 
Maquoketu,  Jackson  Co.,  Iowa.  The  next  year  my  wife,  a  dear  girl  of 
eighteen  years,  cast  her  lot  with  me,  and  for  forty  years  was  a  noble  sharer 
and  helper  in  everthing  I  had  to  do.  May  22,  1892,  the  Master  called  her 
home.  To  me  her  memory  is  precious.  I  am  now  seventy- nine  years  old, 
and  have  a  good  home  in  the  family  of  my  youngest  son,  with  whom  I 
expect  to  remain  till  my  summons  comes.  I  have  three  sons  and  one 
daughter,  none  of  whom  have  ever  dishonored  the  name. 

Very  respectfully, 

GEORGE  SCOTT." 
Madrid,  Neb.,  May  15,  1901. 


Pollard. 

Thomas  Pollard  came  in  1692  from  Coventry,  England  to  Billerica, 
twenty  miles  north-west  of  Boston,  Mass.  The  same  year  he  married  his 
cousin,  Mary  Farmer.  They  had  five  daughters  and  ten  sons.  The  fourth 
son,  John,  Was  the  grandfather  of  Jonathan  Pollard,  born  1759,  wll°  came 
to  Cazenovia  from  New  Braintree,  Mass.,  in  1803,  accompanied  by  his  wife, 
Kezia  [Hayward,]  and  eight  children.  Four  more  children  were  born  in 
New  York  state.  Mr.  Pollard  first  lived  near  what  is  now  called  Delphi 
Station,  on  the  farm  afterward  called  the  Lacy  place,  then  the  John  Post 
and  Gilbert  Ackley  place,  and  is  now  the  home  of  Gardner  Freeborn.  His 
last  home  was  southeast  of  New  Woodstock  on  the  road  to  Sheds  Corners. 
The  place  is  now  owned  by  John  Manchester.  Intermediate  owners  have 
been  Ardath  Blair,  Richard  Acker  and  George  Daniel.  The  apple  trees  on 
the  hill  side  were  bought  with  the  proceeds  of  Mrs.  Pollard's  loom. 

Like  his  ancestors,  Mr.  Pollard  was  a  cooper  by  trade.  He  died  in 
1821.  After  his  death  his  wife  lived  with  her  daughter,  Sally,  then  with 
her  son,  Otis,  until  1832,  after  that  time  until  her  death  in  1843,  with  her 


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daughter,  Isabella.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pollard  are  buried  in  the  New  Wood- 
stock cemetery. 

Mr.  Pollard  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier.  He  was  wounded  at  the 
battle  of  Guilford  Court  House,  and  left  unconscious  on  the  field.  When 
consciousness  returned,  discovering  that  the  flies  had  laid  their  eggs  in 
his  wound,  he  vigorously  removed  their  larvae  with  his  jack-knife.  Thom- 
as Pollard,  the  first  American  ancestor,  served  in  the  Indian  wars  in  1706. 
Other  ancestors  were  in  the  French  and  Indian  war;  eight  descendents 
were  in  the  Revolutionary  war,  and  the  first  man  to  fall  at  Bunker  Hill 
was  a  member  of  the  Pollard  family. 

The  eight  daughters  of  Jonathan  Pollard  were  Achsah,  who  married 
Sylvenus  Merrick,  and  spent  a  part  of  her  life  in  Syracuse.  Her  husband 
was  prominent  in  the  famous  Jerry  Rescue  case  in  1851.  Their  descend- 
ants are  the  Merricks  of  Syracuse,  well  known  contractors  and  builders  of 
brick  residences.  One  of  their  daughters  married  Ansel  Kinne,  princi- 
pal of  various  schools  in  Syracuse  from  1855  to  1863  and  from  1866  to  1890. 

Zilpha  Pollard  married  Dyer  Lamb,  [see  sketch].  Sally  Dean  Pollard 
was  eight  years  old  when  her  parents  came  to  New  Woodstock  from 
Massachusetts.  When  twenty-two  she  married  William  Smith,  a  farmer 
and  distiller  at  New  Woodstock.  He  served  a  short  time  in  the  war  of  1812. 
Three  of  their  children  died  in  infancy.  The  other  three  were  Jane, 
Harriet,  who  died  in  1880,  and  Electa.  Mrs.  Smith,  or  "Aunt  Sally,"  as 
she  was  familiarly  called,  depended  on  her  own  exertions  for  the  support 
of  herself  and  children.  She  possessed  remarkable  executive  ability, 
originality,  and  quickness  in  repartee.  With  unwearied  perseverance  she 
toiled  and  gave  each  of  her  daughters  a  good  education.  Electa  married 
Rev.  Charles  Blakeslee,  and  is  still  living.  The  eldest  daughter,  Jane, 
married  John  Underwood,  and  lived  in  New  Woodstock  and  Cazenovia 
until  1874,  then  moved  to  Syracuse  where  she  died;during  the  present  year, 
1901,  at  the  age  of  83.  She  possessed  a  remarkable  memory,  and  much  of 
the  data  of  the  present  history  is  due  to  her  aid  in  supplying  important 
items.  Well  versed  in  chemistry  and  other  branches,  she  was  a  successful 
teacher  in  the  old  red  school  house  in  1837. 

Persis  Pollard  first  married  Charles  Farnham  of  New  York  City,  and 
second,  Judah  Simonds.of  East  Wilson.  She  was  the  last  of  her  genera- 
tion, dying  in  1890,  in  her  ninety-second  year.  Polly  Pollard  was  born  in 
1801,  died  in  1826. 

Isabella  Pollard  spent  her  girlhood  in  the  family  of  Luke  May,  and 
married  Fletcher  Billings,  a  carriage  maker,  residing  in  Rippleton.  She 
died  in  1886.  Her  youngest  child,  George  Billings,  and  family  still  reside 
in  the  old  home.  In  a  sketch  written  by  Mrs.  Billings'  daughter,  the  late 
Mrs.  Susan  Ackertnan,  she  alludes  to  her  mother's  loving  care  of  her  own 
four  children,  of  three  motherless  children,  of  four  nieces,  and  several 


HISTORY   OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


other  children,  all  taken  into  her  home,  cared  for  and  sent  to  school. 

Melina,  the  seventh  daughter,  married  Oliver  Bird,  of  Port  Gibson, 
and  died  in  1854.  Urvilla  Pollard  was  born  in  New  Woodstock  in  1810. 
She  married  in  1828  D.  J.  Gregory  of  New  York  City;  In  1847,  Horace 
Williams  of  Cazenovia.  She  died  in  1858;  Her  two  daughters,  Ellen  and 
Anna,  spent  several  years  with  their  aunt,  Mrs.  Billings. 

The  four  sons  of  Jonathan  and  Kezia  Pollard  were  Franklin,  who  died 
in  infancy,  Otis,  Calvin,  and  John.  Otis  and  Calvin  became  architects 
and  builders  in  New  York  City.  The  former  was  stricken  with  partial 
paralysis  in  1856,  and  lived  with  his  sister,  Mrs.  Billings,  from  that  time 
until  his  death  in  1870,  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven. 

When  the  Baptist  church  in  New  Woodstock  was  built  in  1815,  Calvin 
Pollard,  then  eighteen,  made  a  drawing  of  it,  putting  in  every  rafter  and 
other  details.  He  died  in  1850  when  only  fifty-three,  yet  he  had  realized 
the  dream  of  his  youth  and  had  become  a  skillful  architect.  He  designed 
and  built  the  City  Hall,  in  Brooklyn,  the  Custom  House  on  Wall  Street, 
N.  Y.,  the  Astor  House,  Broadway,  and  the  Tombs.  One  of  his  children 
was  Miss  Josephine  Pollard,  the  late  gifted  hymn  writer  and  poet  in  New 
York  City. 

John  Pollard,  unlike  his  brothers  who  were  men  of  large  physique, 
was  a  man  of  slender  figure.  In  early  life  he  was  a  wood  carver  in  Albany. 
When  more  than  eighty  years'of  age,  he  came  to  New  Woodstock  to  visit 
the  scenes  of  his  childhood.  While  here  he  gave  lessons  in  drawing  with 
an  ability  and  originality  that  only  his  pupils  can  appreciate. 

The  ancient  military  spirit  animated  the  later  generations  of  the  Pol- 
lard family.  At  the  beginning  of  the  civil  war,  there  were  eight  in  whose 
veins  flowed  the  blood  of  Jonathan  Pollard,  that  responded  to  the  nation's 
call  for  help,  and  served  in  the  rank  and  file  of  the  army. 


Lamb. 

Dr.  Lamb,  of  Palmerston,  wasone  of  the  earliest  physicians  in  this  part 
of  the  town.  He  died  February,  1813,  and  is  buried  in  the  cemetery  at 
Union.  Dr.  Lamb  had  a  large  nose,  and  a  tradition  is  told  in  the  family 
that  he  and  a  doctor  from  Cazeuovia  also  having  a  large  nose  met  on  a 
narrow  plank  crossing  a  stream.  In  order  to  cross  safely  Dr.  Lamb  sug- 
gested that  they  turn  their  noses  away  from  each  other,  which  they  did. 

Dr.  Lamb  had  five  sous,  Dyer,  Reuben,  Harvey,  Jabez  and  Philip,  also 
three  daughters,  Sally,  Catherina  and  Rebecca.  His  son,  Dyer,  was  born 
in  Palmerston,  Mass.,  in  1786,  was  a  farmer  and  carpenter,  learning  his 
trade  of  Marvel  Underwood.  In  1806  he  built  Hunt  and  Bishop's  grist 


Rev.  I.  K.  Brownson 
Willard  Carpenter 


Dyer  Lamb 
William  Moffett 


HISTORY  OF   NEW   WOODSTOCK.  85 

mill  at  Georgetown.  He  assisted  in  building  the  historic  house  on  Muller 
Hill  and  the  Baptist  churches  at  Delphi  and  New  Woodstock.  Dyer  Lamb 
married  Zilpha  Pollard,  of  New  Woodstock,  in  i8n.  Mrs.  Lamb  is  remem- 
bered as  a  woman  of  determined,  resolute  character  and  specially  gifted  in 
prayer.  Their  first  home  was  on  "Lamb  Hill,"  now  called  "Clark's" 
or  "  Fairbauk's  Hill."  They  afterward  lived  where  Ezekiel  Harris  now 
lives;  Mr.  Lamb  managing  the  saw-mill  for  Mr.  Pierce. 

The  children  of  Dyer  and  Zilpha  Lamb  were  Randolph,  1812  ;  Admiral, 
1813;  Wilson,  1816;  Delancy,  1819;  Persis,  1823;  Madison,  1829,  and  Lewis, 
1835.  Randolph  married  a  daughter  of  James  Randall,  of  Shed's  Corners. 
Their  two  children  were  Henry  D.  and  Amelia  E.  The  latter  was  at  one 
time  a  teacher  in  Syracuse.  She  was  graduated  from  Syracuse  Medical 
College  in  1878  and  is  now  practicing  medicine  in  Syracuse.  She  married, 
in  1868  Edward  Danii,  of  New  Haven,  Conn.,  who  died  in  1869.  In  1886 she 
married  Andrew  J.  DeMott,  of  Syracuse. 

Dyer  Lamb  died  in  1870,  his  wife  in  1872.  Their  last  years  were  spent 
in  the  home  of  their  son,  Wilson  H.,  more  familiarly  known  as  Deacon 
Lamb.  He  married  in  1842,  Lucinda,  daughter  of  Dwight  Gardner,  of 
Shed's  Corners.  Their  home  for  many  years  was  the  farm  'southeast  of 
New  Woodstock  purchased  of  David  Smith,  Jr.  Wilson  Lamb  died  in  1892. 
His  wife  is  still  living  on  the  farm  with  their  only  child,  Calvin  A.  Lamb, 
who  was  born  in  1845.  In  1873  Calvin  Lamb  married  Ellen  Webber,  who 
died  in  1893.  In  1897  he  married  Maud  Wilbur,  of  Fenner,  N.  Y.  Their 
children  are  Fordyce  W.  and  Amelia  Isabel.  Mr.  Lamb  belongs  to  the  K. 
O.  T.  M.  and  is  also  a  member  of  the  New  Woodstock  Grange. 


Abott. 


The  Abotts  were  among  the  earliest  settlers  of  New  Woodstock.  Jared 

Abott,  born  May  i,  1801,  married  Mary  Moore,  Jan. Three 

children  were  born  to  them,  Mary  Elizabeth,  1826;  Charles  J.,  1830,  and 
Lucy  Ann,  1835.  Mary  E.  married^M.  D.  Gage,  Aug.  14,  1856.  Their  five 
children  were  Mary  Ella,  1858;  Sarah  Emma,  1859;  Hattie  Louie.  1862; 
Charles  Albert,  1866,  and  Alvin  Clifford,  1870.  Mrs.  Gage  died  Jan.  8,  1895. 

Charles  J.  married  Eliza  J.  Abott  in  1856.  They  have  one  son,  C. 
Milford.  Their  home  was  New  Woodstock  for  several  years, '_but  they  now 
reside  in  Clifford,  Oswego  Co,  N.  Y. 

Lucy  Ann  married  Simeon  Pearse.  They  had  two  children,  Mary 
Eliza,  born  1858,  died  1896,  and  Warren  M.,  born  1861.  Mr.  Pearse 
died  in  1896. 

Jared  Abbott's  first  wife   died   in   1852.     In  1854  he  married  Philena 


86  HISTORY  OP  NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

Abbott.     Mr.  Abbott  died  in  1876,  his  wife  surviving  him  three  years. 

Willard  Abbott,  born  1774,  married  Nancy  Childs,  and  had  five  child- 
ren: Adolphus,  born  1803,  died  1852;  Melissa  Cotes,  1802-1853;  Rosina 
Crandall,  1805-1877;  Erastus,  1807-1880;  Elisha  Litchfield,  1809-1854. 

Erastus  married  Betsey  Card  in  1828,  and  was  a  life-long  prominent 
resident  of  New  Woodstock.  Their  children  were  Eliza  J.  [Abbott,]  and 
Julia,  who  married  George  Alvord,  and  has  one  daughter,  Luella  B. 

Elisha  Litchfield  Abbott  was  born  in  New  Woodstock,  Oct.,  23,  1809. 
At  the  age  of  twenty-two  he  was  baptized  by  Elder  Peck  and  became  a 
member  of  the  Baptist  church.  He  attended  Hamilton  Literary  and  Theo- 
logical Institute,  [now  Colgate  University.]  In  1832  he  was  licensed  by 
the  church  at  New  Woodstock  to,  "improve  his  gifts  wherever  God  in  His 
Providence  should  open  the  door."  In  1835  he  was  ordained  and  appoint- 
ed missionary  to  Burmah.  Ann  Gardner,  whom  he  married  in  Tavoy,  in 
1837  after  both  had  been  on  the  mission  field  two  j-ears,  was  also  a  mem- 
ber of  the  church  at  New  Woodstock,  being  baptized  in  1826.  It  is  related 
that  a  short  time  before  they  left  for  Burmah,  a  reception  was  held  for 
them  at  the  home  of  Miss  Gardner's  parents,  where  Fred  Slocum  now  lives. 
Also  that  the  Sunday  before  they  sailed,  they  visited  Arcenal  Webber,  who 
then  kept  the  toll  gate  which  stood  where  E.  Damon  now  lives,  Mr.  Vin- 
ton  and  his  promised  wife  being  present,  who  were  also  going  as  mission- 
aries. While  there  they  sang  the  hymn  beginning, 

"Yes,  my  native  land,   I  love  thee, 

All  thy  scenes,  I  love  them  well. 
Friends,  connections,  happy  country, 

Can  I  bid  you  all  farewell  ? 
Can  I  leave  you, 

Far  in  heathen  lands  to  dwell  ? 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Abbott  were  very  sucessful  in  their  work  and  much  be- 
loved by  the  people  among  whom  they  labored.  They  established  a  mis- 
sion station  at  Sandoway,  Province  of  Arakan,  in  1840.  Their  achieve- 
ments form  an  interesting  part  of  the  history  of  early  missions.  Mrs. 
Abbott  died  from  heart  disease  at  Sandoway,  Jan.  27,  1845,  and  in  Novem- 
ber, 1845,  Mr.  Abbott  returned  to  America  with  his  two  little  boys.  Elder 
Peck  met  him  in  New  York,  and  they  embraced  each  other  with  tears  of 
joy. 

In  August,  1847,  Mr.  Abbott  returned  to  Sandoway,  the  New  Wood- 
stock Baptist  "Dorcas and  Lois  Society'  furnishing  $66.00  for  his  outfit.  In 
1853,  on  account  of  failing  health,  he  was  again  obliged  to  sail  for  the 
United  States.  Great  sorrow  was  manifested  in  Arakan  at  his  departure, 
throngs  of  Karens  and  others  following  him  about,  uttering  the  lament, 
"We  shall  die  in  our  longing  for  our  teacher,  Abbott."  He  lived  fora 
year  and  a  half  among  his  friends,  and  died  at  Fulton,  N.  Y.,  Dec.  3,  1854. 


HISTORY  OF   NEW   WOODSTOCK.  87 

At  his  request  he  was  buried  at  New  Woodstock  among  his  kindred. 
Funeral  services  were  held  in  the  Baptist  church  at  New  Woodstock,  De- 
cember 20,  Rev.  John  Fulton,  the  pastor,  preaching  on  the  occasion,  with 
closing  remarks  by  Rev.  Lewis  Leonard,  of  Cazeiiovia,  and  Rev.  Mr.  Sim- 
mons, of  Fulton. 

A  fine  monument  of  red  granite  was  erected  by  the  sons  of  the  man 
whose  name  he  bore,  Hon.  Elisha  Litchfield.  The  following  is  a  copy  of 
the  inscription  upon  it: 

"Rev.  Elisha  Iyitchfield  Abbott,  Missionary  to  Burmah. 

Died,  December  3,  1854,  aged  45  years. 

"His  works  do  follow  him." 

Mr.  Abbott's  sons  are  living,  Willard,  the  older,  in  Ohio,  and  Frank, 
in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 


Elmore. 

Eliphet  Elmore  and  his  wife,  Mabel  Pitkin,  were  natives  of  Connecti- 
cut, settling  in  New  York  about  1800  on  what  is  still  known  as  the  Elmore 
farm.  Mr.  Elmore  was  twice  married,  and  had  eleven  children.  The 
first  five,  Horace,  Emily  [Savage],  Diana  [Hill],  Pitkin  and  Madison  were 
born  in  the  log  house  which  was  on  the  farm  when  Mr.  Elmore  purchased 
it.  He  afterward  built  a  house  farther  east  on  that  part  of  the  farm  whose 
subsequent  owners  were  Mr.  Bissell  and  John  Fuller. 

Mr.  Elmore  died  in  1850.  It  is  recorded  that  he  joined  the  Baptist 
church  in  New  Woodstock  in  1808.  In  after  years  several  of  his  sons  and 
daughters  united  with  the  same  church  among  them  being  Madison 
Elmore. 

In  1841,  a  part  of  his  father's  farm  was  purchased  by  Madison  Elmore, 
who  married  Clymena  E.  Thrasher.  He  afterward  purchased  of  Mr.  Fuller 
the  remainder  of  the  original  farm.  He  died  in  1885,  leaving  one  son, 
James,  who  married  Amelia  M.  Ainsworth  in  1871,  and  resides  in  the  house 
his  father  built,  in  the  same  spot  where  James'  grandfather  first  settled. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Elmore  have  had  five  children.  The  two  sons 
died  in  infancy;  their  daughters  are  Clymena  E.,  Mary  S.,  and  Mabel  A. 


88  HISTORY   OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


Dr.  Gibbs. 


Dr.  Levi  Gibbs  was  boru  in  Tolland,  Mass.,  and  when  a  young  man, 
in  company  with  his  sisters,  Mary  and  Amelia,  removed  to  New  Wood- 
stock, Madison  Co.,  N.  Y.,  where  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  about 
the  year  1817.  Marked  success  attended  him  for  a  great  many  years.  He 
then  removed  to  Cazenovia,  where  he  gave  most  of  his  time  to  the  law, 
having  prepared  for  that  as  well  as  for  the  medical  profession.  He  was 
known  as  "  The  Honest  Lawyer." 

Early  in  life  he  married  Content  Bumpus,  of  Nelson,  N.  Y.  To  them 
were  born  two  children,  Frank  and  Charlotte,  who  were  educated  in  Caze- 
novia Seminary,  both  being  graduated  from  that  institution. 

After  practicing  the  profession  of  his  father  for  a  few  years,  Frank 
felt  himself  called  to  the  ministry,  and  at  last  accounts  was  rector  of  an 
Episcopal  church  in  the  west. 

Charlotte  married  James  Watts,  son  of  Judge  Watts,  of  Putnam  Co., 
N.  Y.,  and  by  his  death  was  left  a  widow  while  still  a  young  woman,  and 
latter  married  Joel  Holcomb  of  New  York  City  and  died  in  that  place. 

Many  years  after  his  wife's  death  Dr.  Gibbs  married  Mrs.  Goodrich, 
who  still  survives  him,  being  nearly  one  hundred  years  of  age.  His  sister, 
Mary,  became  the  wife  of  Clark  Taber,  spoken  of  in  the  Taber  sketch. 
Amelia  married  Abel  Bissell,  after  having  been  a  seamstress  in  the  village 
of  Cazenovia  for  many  years.  She  was  the  third  wife  of  Mr.  Bissell  and 
survived  him  nearly  a  year,  dying  April  3,  1879  at  their  home  in  Belmont, 
N.  Y. 


Taber. 


Clark  Taber,  father  of  B.  Wellington  and  Loyal  C.,  was  born  in  Little 
Compton,  R.  I.  He  was  one  of  seven  sons  of  Philip  and  Mary  Gibbs  Taber. 
His  brother  David  was  father  of  Darius,  Warren,  George,  David,  Mary  and 
Alma.  Their  home  was  east  of  New  Woodstock,  near  the  old  turnpike. 
Another  brother,  Peleg,  was  a  cooper  and  lived  at  Belmont.  His  son,  Jabez 
G.  was  twice  married  and  had  two  children  by  each  marriage.  His  last 
wife  was  Betsey  Curtis,  daughter  of  the  pioneer,  Edward  Curtis.  Her  two 
children  were  Julia  Warner,  living  in  New  Woodstock  on  the  road  to 
Shed's  Corners,  and  Helen  Bacon,  who  died  several  years  ago,  leaving 
three  children. 


HISTORY   OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK.  89 

Clark  Taber  and  his  brother,  Nathaniel,  for  many  years  owned  and 
operated  the  Taber  Mills,  now  known  as  Judd's  Mills.  There  were  at  that 
time  both  a  saw  mill  and  grist  mill.  These  were  burned  while  the  Tabers 
owned  them,  but  were  rebuilt.  As  there  were  no  insurance,  and  the  books 
were  all  destroyed  with  the  mills,  the  brothers  were  poverty-stricken,  but 
still  had  courage  and  persevered  quite  successfully.  In  the  house  just 
west  of  the  mills  and  blacksmith  shop,  both  Wellington  and  Loyal  were 
born. 

In  1832,  Clark  Taber  purchased  the  farm  still  known  by  his  name,  and 
owned  by  his  descendants.  There  he  and  his  wife,  Mary  Gibbs  Taber, 
lived  and  died.  Mrs.  Taber  was  born  in  Tolland,  Mass.,  and  came  "Up 
West,"  as  it  was  then  called,  on  a  packet  boat  with  her  sister,  Amelia  and 
brother,  Dr.  Levi  Gibbs.  The  latter  was  a  prominent  and  successful 
physician  in  New  Woodstock,  and  later  in  Cazenovia.  Mrs.  Taber  was  a 
loyal  member  of  the  Methodist  church  of  New  Woodstock,  a  noble  mother, 
and  a  very  intelligent  woman,  able  to  converse  understandingly  upon  all 
current  topics.  For  many  years  previous  to  her  marriage  she  taught 
school,  and  is  still  remembered  as  a  teacher  in  New  Woodstock.  Mrs. 
Taber  died  March  28,  1858,  aged  sixty-two,  and  Mr.  Taber  January  16,  1862, 
aged  seventy-two. 

Their  son, Wellington,  remained  on  the  old  homestead  until  three  and 
a  half  years  prior  to  his  death  which  occurred  July  12,  1885,  aged  fifty-seven. 
He  was  both  a  good  farmer  and  an  excellent  mechanic,  working  at  his 
trade  as  millwright  much  of  his  time,  employing  men  to  do  the  farm  work. 
At  the  time  of  his  death  there  was  hardly  a  mill  within  twenty  miles  that 
did  not  contain  his  work,  as  well  as  many  farther  away.  In  1881,  he  and 
his  wife;  Amanda  Ward  Taber,  moved  to  Cazenovia,  and  at  his  death  she 
removed  to  her  daughter's  near  Rippleton.  Their  daughter  is  Mrs. 
Charlotte  Taber  Perkins,  wife  of  Charles  H.  Perkins.  To  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Perkins  were  born  two  sons  Wellington  Taber,  whom  God  called  home 
when  less  than  nine  months  old,  and  Charles  Taber  Perkins,  now  attend- 
ing Cazenovia  Seminary. 

Loyal,  second  son  of  Clark  Taber  was  a  natural  mechanic  and  left 
home  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  being  employed  in  the  engine  works  of  Wood 
&  Morse,  of  Eaton,  N.  Y.  Within  a  few  years  he  became  a  member  of  the 
firm,  and  the  manufacture  of  the  Wood,  Taber  &  Morse  engine  was  suc- 
cessfully continued  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Taber,  which  occurred  at  his 
home  in  Syracuse,  January  12,  1892,  when  he  was  aged  fifty-nine 
years.  He  left  a  widow,  Mary  Smith  Taber,  and  three  sons,  Wellington 
W.,  Loyal  C.,  and  Claude. 


9O  HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK. 


Judson. 


Abner  Judson  came  to  New  Woodstock  from  Connecticut  in  1818.  He 
built  the  house  where  Alfred  Judson  now  lives.  He  lived  to  the  age  of 
eighty-three.  His  oldest  sou,  Alfred,  settled  in  Pontiac,  Mich.,  when  that 
country  was  new,  buying  and  selling  lots,  and  afterward  living  on  a  farm 
near  Pontiac.  He  reared  a  large  family,  two  of  whom  went  to  China  as 
missionaries. 

Nathan  Judson  married  a  daughter  of  Elisha  Webber  and  resided  on 
the  farm  now  owned  by  Ed.  Webber.  Their  children  were  Lodusky, 
Louisa,  Lucius,  Lester,  Lutina  and  Laugusta. 

Another  son,  Isaac,  lived  in  New  Woodstock  on  the  homestead.  His 
children  were  Mary  Jane,  born  1839,  Martha,  1844  and  Alfred,  1848. 

Mary  Jane  married  Amos  Haley,  and  had  two  children,  Kate  and 
Daniel.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Haley  lived  in  New  Woodstock  for  man}7  years, 
but  now  have  a  home  with  their  son,  who  is  the  proprietor  of  a  steam 
laundry  in  Auburn,  N.  Y.  Their  daughter,  Kate,  is  the  wife  of  J.  C.  Gray, 
and  resides  in  Cortland,  N.  Y. 

Martha  Judson  married  John  Bellinger,  and  lives  in  St.  Clair,  Mich. 

Alfred  married  Anna  Peek,  and  has  always  lived  in  the  old  homestead. 
They  had  one  son,  DeMont,  who  is  now  a  resident  of  Auburn.  Mrs.  Jud- 
son died  in  1883,  and  Mr.  Judson  married  for  his  second  wife,  Mina  Hart 
of  Fabius. 


Barnard. 


The  name  of  Barnard  has  been  associated  with  New  Woodstock,  since 
1825  when  the  widow  Barnard  came  here  from  New  Hartford,  N.  Y.  She 
afterward  married  Benjamin  Virgil,  and  lived  on  the  farm  now  owned  by 
Luther  Smith.  She  had  three  sons  and  three  daughters.  One  daughter, 
Sarah  Simmons,  lived  in  New  Woodstock  several  years,  then  removed  to 
Michigan.  The  sons  were  Lacy,  who  married  Enoch  StowelPs  daughter 
and  moved  to  Cattaraugus  County.  James  studied  medicine  with  Dr. 
Stephen  Collins,  was  ready  to  begin  practice,  but  was  taken  ill  with  fever 
and  died  at  the  age  of  twenty-four.  Gurdin  was  a  lad  of  ten  when  he  came 
to  New  Woodstock.  In  1842  he  married  Polly  Gage  and  bought  the  farm 
where  his  mother  lived,  also  buying  additional  land.  He  afterward  sold 
to  James  Allen  and  bought  the  original  Isaac  Morse  farm.  Their  four 
children  were  born  in  their  first  home.  Lucian  enlisted  in  the  Civil  War 


James  G.  Barnard 


HISTORY   OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  9! 

in  the  H4th  Regiment,  was  promoted  to  Corporal,  December  30,  1863,  and 
was  instantly  killed  in  the  battle  of  Pleasant  Hill,  April  9,  1864. 

James  G.  was  borii  in  1844.  In  1868  he  married  Judith  Wallace,  and 
for  two  years  lived  on  the  farm  opposite  his  father,  once  a  part  of  Isaac 
Morse's  farm.  This  he  sold  in  1870  to  M.  C.  Thomas  and  bought  the  farm 
of  his  father-in-law,  George  Wallace,  in  the  town  of  Fabius,  where  he 
lived  for  thirty  years  and  then  moved  into  the  village.  He  has  been  as- 
sessor in  Fabius  fifteen  years,  and  is  now  serving  his  fourth  year  as  super- 
visor. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Barnard's  four  children  are  George,  of  Syracuse,  May 
[Fuggle.]  who  lives  near  Delphi  Station  on  the  late  M.  W.  Richmond 
farm;  Frank,  who  lives  on  the  farm  in  Fabius,  and  Maude  [Vincent,]  who 
lives  with  her  parents. 

The  two  daughters  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gurclin  Barnard  were  Hattie  and 
Julia.  The  latter  married  Oliver  Stanton  and  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-two, 
leaving  a  son  and  daughter.  Deacon  Barnard  died  in  1878.  Mrs.  Barn- 
ard and  daughter,  Hattie,  remained  in  the  old  home  three  years.  At  the 
end  of  that  time  Hattie  married  John  Freeborn,  and  since  then  Mrs.  Barn- 
ard has  resided  with  her. 


Thompson. 

Jarvis  J.  Thompson,  whose  ancestors  were  of  Dutch  and  Scotch  origin, 
came  to  Cazeuovia  when  a  young  man,  and  located  on  a  farm  of  one  hund- 
red forty  acres  which  had  been  acquired  by  his  father,  Gideon  Thompson, 
who  was  a  resident  of  Beekman,  Dutchess  Co.,  N.  Y.  Mr.  Thompson 
married  Jane  Brownell.  Their  children  were  DeWitt  C.,  deceased,  Caro- 
line [Pratt,  Tucker,]  Gideon,  Luther  B.,  A.  J.,  Jane  A.  [Eltnore,  Doughty,] 
deceased;  and  George  W.,  deceased.  Mr.  Thompson  died  in  1877  at  the 
age  of  eighty-one.  George  W.,  left  two  sons.  Hamilton  resides  on  the 
old  Card  farm  at  Union.  Jarvis  at  Union  Corners. 

Gideon  married,  in  1872,  Mary  Stockham,  of  Fabius.  She  died  in 
1899.  His  sister,  Caroline  now  resides  with  him  on  his  farm,  which  is 
situated  on  the  west  road  to  Cazenovia. 

In  1861,  Luther  Brownell  Thompson  married  Joanna,  daughter  of 
Aaron  Wagner  of  Cazenovia.  Their  daughters  are  Jennie  E.,  who  married 
the  late  Norton  S.  Hull,  of  Norwich;  Hattie  E.,  wife  of  Herman  Wood- 
worth  of  Cornwall-on-the-Hudson;  Fannie  E.,  wife  of  Rev.  Adelbert 
Chapman  of  New  York  City,  and  Cora  A.  Thompson. 

Mr.  Thompson's  farm  was  once  owned  by  Daniel  Damon,  who  came 
from  Massachusetts,  and  was  one  of  the  earliest  settlers  in  the  town. 

A.  J.  Thompson,  youngest  son  of  Jarvis  Thompson,  resides  on  his 
father's  farm. 


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Ellis. 


Harvey  S.  Ellis  was  born  in  Long  Meadow,  Mass.,  in  1802.  At  the 
age  of  fifteen,  he  was  apprenticed  to  a  cooper  in  Stafford,  Conn.,  where  he 
married  Dimis,  daughter  of  Elias  Chapin,  and  then  came  to  New  Wood- 
stock about  1822.  He  lived  in  the  old  "meeting  house,"  as  it  was  called, 
and  in  the  Cleveland  house  until  1826,  when  he  purchased  land  of  Oliver 
Stanton,  on  the  Floodport  road,  finished  clearing  it,  set  out  maple  trees 
and  fruit  trees  and  built  a  home,  into  which  he  moved  the  last  of  December, 
1828. 

In  1851  his  wife  died,  leaving  five  children,  the  eldest  a  lad  of  fifteen. 
Oscar  F.  Ellis,  now  of  Wellsboro,  Pa.  ;  Harriett  S.  Estes,  of  Wyoming  Co., 
N.  Y,  ;  Caroline  L.  Catlin,  of  Wellsboro,  Pa.  ;  Royal,  whose  home  adjoined 
his  father's,  and  who  died  in  1885  at  the  age  of  fifty-six,  leaving  one  son, 
Clarence,  of  San  Angello,  Texas,  and  George  W.,  of  Stephens  Point,  Wis. 

Mr.  Ellis  married  Minerva  Chapin,  a  younger  sister  of  his  first  wife, 
who  had  made  her  home  with  Mrs.  Ellis  for  some  years  while  she  taught 
school  or  worked  at  her  trade  as  tailoress  for  the  sum  of  twenty-five  cents 
a  day.  While  working  for  this  price,  one  of  the  neighbors  suggested  that 
she  ought  to  be  able  to  lay  up  fioo  a  year.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ellis  had  one 
daughter,  Ellen  Gage  Schusler,  of  Wellsboro,  Pa. 

Sometime  in  the  Fifties,  they  bought  the  "Uncle  Roswell  Savage" 
place,  consisting  of  a  house  and  lot  on  the  corner  of  the  street  where  he 
lived,  (now  called  the  Lura  Curtis  place),  an  orchard  opposite  the  Ellis 
homestead,  a  piece  of  woodlaud  at  Floodport,  and  still  later  a  piece  of  land 
called  the  "Loomis  lot"  below  the  Ellis  bridge,  from  all  of  which  he 
cleaned  the  stumps  and  underbrush.  This  made  a  fine  farm  which  he 
loved  and  which  he  took  great  pride  in  keeping  neat  and  in  good  shape 
until  his  death  in  1883.  He  was  eighty-one  years  old. 

Mr.  Ellis  wasa  busy  man,  doing  good  work  in  his  cooper  shop  which 
was  just  north  of  his  house  as  was  also  his  cider  mill,  where  the  school 
children  thought  the  cider  was  the  sweetest  and  tlie  horses  which  turned 
the  old  sweep  to  grind  the  apples  the  crassest  they  ever  saw.  In  those  days 
he  employed  several  men  in  the  shop,  for  he  was  teamster  for  the  New 
Woodstock  Glove  Co.,  and  also  drew  goods  for  the  merchants.  His  big 
bay  horses,  Bill  and  Charlie,  were  familiar  objects  on  the  road  between 
New  Woodstock  and  Syracuse  or  Chittenango,  the  nearest  railway  stations. 
He  was  an  active  member  of  the  M.  E.  church,  also  a  strong  Abolitionist 
and  one  of  the  conductors  of  the  underground  railroad  of  slavery  days. 
He  was  not  afraid  to  give  his  opinion  on  the  questions  of  the  day,  no  mat- 
ter whom  it  hit.  Owing  to  a  difference  of  opinion,  Ralph  Knight,  when 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  WOODSTOCK.  93 

keeper  of  the  keys,  once  locked  Mr.  Ellis  out  of  the  Methodist  church. 

Royal  H.  Ellis,  second  son  of  Harvey  Ellis,  married  Mary  E.  Barber,  a 
milliner  who  was  living  in  the  Huntley  house  now  owned  by  P.  E.  Jaquith. 
They  afterward  lived  in  the  Lewis  house  while  he  was  building  his  home 
on  land  adjoining  and  once  owned  by  his  father.  He  learned  the  cooper's 
trade  from  his  father  and  the  carpenter's  trade  from  Warren  Taber.  Royal 
was  chorister  and  organist  at  the  M.E.  church  for  about  twenty  years.  He 
was  justice  of  the  peace  for  several  terms,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  Lodge  of  Cazenovia. 


Slocum. 


The  first  representative  of  the  Slocum  family  to  settle  in  New  Wood- 
stock was  Isaac,  who  came  from  Nelson  with  his  wife,  Sabrina  Scott  Slo- 
cum, and  two  daughters  and  a  sou.  Until  his  death  he  resided  about  a 
half  mile  south  of  the  village,  on  what  is  known  as  the  upper  road. 

The  daughter  Lydia,  who  married  Sampson  Morse,  died  some  twenty- 
six  years  ago.  One  son  George,  who  resides  in  Cortland,  survives  her. 
Susan,  the  younger  daughter,  died  at  an  early  age.  The  son  George,  with 
his  wife  Mary  Alvord,  resides  on  the  farm  southeast  of  the  village,  origin- 
ally owned  and  cleared  by  Samuel  Smith  and  Mr.  Hendryx,  but  bought  of 
the  widow  of  Moses  Smith  in  1865.  Two  sons,  Charles  and  Harry,  live 
with  them;  one  daughter  is  married,  one  is  a  teacher. 

Isaac  was  followed  twelve  years  later  by  a  younger  brother,  Joseph, 
who  settled  south  of  the  village.  Later  he  moved  into  the  village,  and 
finally  spent  his  last  days  with  his  son  Lyman,  who  lives  on  a  farm  east  of 
the  village.  His  wife,  Elvira,  who  is  mentioned  elsewhere,  survives  him, 
at  the  age  of  ninety-six. 

His  son  Oliver,  who  was  a  soldier,  died  about  twelve  years  ago.  He 
had  two  sons,  who  live  on  farms  west  of  the  village.  The  daughter,  Mary, 
wife  of  Warren  Lee,  lives  at  the  old  home  in  the  village.  They  have  three 
sons  and  two  daughters. 

The  two  brothers,  Isaac  and  Joseph,  were  born  in  the  state  of  Rhode 
Island.  At  present,  their  descendants  contribute  about  thirty  people  to 
the  population  of  the  town. 


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Thomas. 

Mansier  Green  Thomas,  born  1798,  was  a  native  of  Richfield,  N.  Y. 
He  was  brought  up  a  farmer,  taught  school  a  few  terms,  peddled  tinware 
two  and  a  half  years,  was  merchant  at  West  Woodstock  eighteen  years, 
then  returned  to  farming.  At  the  age  of  seventy,  he  moved  to  Cazenovia 
village  where  he  died  fourteen  years  later.  He  was  a  man  of  great  in- 
dustry, a  marvel  of  exact  honesty,  an  abolitionist,  a  temperance  man  and 
a  sincere  Christian. 

In  1820,  he  married  Susan  Starkweather,  who  died  in  1822,  leaving  one 
son,  Lorenzo  S.  Thomas.  In  1828,  he  married  in  Fabius,  Lucy  Conable, 
of  Bernardston,  Mass.,  and  soon  after  moved  to  West  Woodstock.  Mrs. 
Thomas  received  part  of  her  education  at  Deerfield,  Mass.,  Academy. 
She  taught  school  for  years,  mostly  near  Fabius  where  she  joined  the  Free- 
will Baptist  church,  receiving  license  to  exercise  her  gifts  in  public  meet- 
ings. In  the  early  and  later  years  of  her  life  she  was  a  Methodist,  believ- 
ing in  full  salvation,  and  so  powerful  in  prayer  and  exhortation  that  her 
counsel  was  often  sought.  Mrs.  Thomas  is  also  remembered  for  her  in- 
genuity. 

Their  eight  children,  four  of  whom  died  young,  were  born  in  West 
Woodstock.  Their  fourth  child,  Joseph  Conable  Thomas,  born  1833, 
graduated  in  1860  from  Cazenovia  Seminary;  from  Northwestern  Univer- 
sity at  Evanston,  111.,  in  1866;  and  afterward  from  Garrett  Biblical  In- 
stitute. A  part  of  the  time  during  these  years  he  taught  in  Cazenovia  and 
Illinois.  In  1854  he  was  licensed  to  exhort  and  a  year  later  began  his 
work  as  a  Methodist  preacher.  For  nearly  three  years  he  was  chaplain  of 
the  88th  Reg't.  111.  Vols.  His  health  failing  he  gave  up  preaching  and 
was  on  the  Christian  Advocate  editoral  staff  several  years.  He  is  now  in 
New  York  employed  in  library  work  for  the  Methodist  denomination. 

Mansier  Conable  Thomas,  the  sixth  child  of  M.  G.  and  Lucy  C. 
Thomas,  [1837-1894,]  lived  nearly  all  his  life  within  a  mile  of  his  birth- 
place. He  was  a  prosperous  farmer  and  a  man  highly  respected,  holding 
several  town  offices.  In  1862,  he  married  Anna,  daughter  of  Mason  and 
Harriet  [Keeney]  Blanchard.  They  had  three  children;  Harriet,  who  died 
at  sixteen,  Mason  B.,  and  Gertude.  The  son  received  his  education  at 
Cazenovia  Seminary  and  Cornell  University,  and  is  now  a  successful 
teacher  of  biology  at  Crawfordsville,  Indiana.  Prof.  Thomas  is  the 
author  of  a  manual  of  Plant  Histology  and  other  books  which  have  been 
accepted  as  text  books  in  schools  in  Mass.,  and  other  states.  The  younger 
daughter  married  Bert  Chapman  and  now  resides  at  Marathon.  They 
have  one  son,  Howard  T.  Chapman. 


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R.  R.  Churchward 


Theodore  Morse 
M.  L.  Underwood 


HISTORY  OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  95 

Susan  Thomas  was  two  years  younger  than  her  brother  Mansier.  She 
had  great  literary  ability,  teaching  school  before  she  was  fourteen  years 
old.  At  the  age  of  eighteen,  she  taught  in  Savannah,  111.,  receiving  $50 
per  month.  She  was  a  student  of  Cazenovia  Seminary  in  1858,  graduat- 
ing two  years  later,  when  twenty-one,  from  the  five  years'  course,  taking 
the  scholarship  medal.  She  became  preceptress  in  Goverueur  Wesleyan 
Seminary  the  next  year  when  her  health  failed,  and  she  died  of  con- 
sumption in  1863.  She  was  a  person  of  genial  manners  and  strong  influ- 
ence. 

Mr.  Thomas'  youngest  child  was  Delia  Green  Thomas,  born  1843. 
She  taught  a  short  timeand  then,  at  the  age  of  fifteen,  entered  Cazenovia 
Seminary.  In  1863,  she  married  W.  C.  Merkley  and  moved  to  Illinois. 
Her  daughter  Lena  died  when  five  years  old,  and  her  son  Clayton,  a  fine 
scholar,  died  at  the  age  of  fifteen.  Mrs.  Merkley  is  now  with  her  brother 
Joseph  in  New  York. 

The  Thomas  family  were  noted  for  their  literary  ability,  conscientious- 
ness and  strong  religious  sentiments. 


Churchward. 


Runyon  R.  Churchward  was  born  in  Seneca  county,  N.  Y.,  in  1813, 
and  died  in  Fabius,  in  1876.  In  1841  he  married  Abby  Ann,  only  child  of 
Levi  and  Marie  S.  Pope,  who  died  in  1849,  leaving  four  children.  Mrs.  H. 
B.  Chapman  and  Mrs.  E.  R.  Cunningham  are  the  only  ones  living. 

Mr.  Churchward  moved  from  DeRuyter  in  1856,  and  bought  of  E. 
Seymour  the  farm  known  as  the  Churchward  farm,  now  owned  by  Benoni 
Barrett.  One  daughter,  Mrs.  Chapman,  owns  the  farm  directly  west  of 
the  old  home  and  the  other  daughter,  Mrs.  Cunningham,  lives  east  on  the 
adjoining  farm.  The  farm  owned  by  their  maternal  grandparents,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Pope,  was  taken  by  the  state  when  DeRuyter  reservoir  was  built. 
That  portion  remaining,  called  Pope's  Island,  still  belongs  to  the  heirs. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pope,  when  they  were  "drowned  out,"  moved  to  West 
Woodstock,  buying  what  is  now  called  the  Atkins  house. 


Cunningham, 


Doctor  Hugh  Cunningham  came  to  Cazenovia  from  Shulesbury,  Mass., 
in  1827.  In  1839,  his  son  William  L,.,  purchased  the  farm  now  owned  by 
Edwin  R.,  who  was  born  there  in  1843.  In  1861  he  married  Maria  J. 
Churchward,  and  in  1870  Frank  I,,  was  born,  who  married  Miss  Lena  A. 


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HISTORY   OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


Wallis  in  1891.  They  have  two  sous,  Wallis  C.  and  Edwin  L,.,  and  reside 
in  the  village  of  New  Woodstock.  Frank  L.  was  postmaster  and  deputy- 
postmaster  for  six  years,  and  is  now  connected  with  the  store  of  Jaquith 
&  Miller. 

The  family  were  originally  from  Scotland,  and  were  naturally  musical. 
Three  generations  have  played  upon  instruments  together  in  several  in- 
stances, and  the  different  musical  organizations  have  always  had  repre- 
sentatives from  this  family. 

Mrs.  Etta  J.  Freeborn,  sister  of  Frank  L,.  Cunningham,  died  in  1900. 

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Lucas. 

The  Lucas  family  originated  in  France,  but  migrated  to  England, 
where  they  bore  the  arms  above  represented.  They  migrated  eventually  to 
Middletown,  Conn.  William,  the  first  of  whom  there  is  any  record,  was 
one  of  the  first  settlers  of  that  town.  He  was  married  in  that  place  to  Hes- 
ter Clark,  July  12,  1866. 

William  Lucas,  the  fifth  William  in  line,  was  four  years  in  the  Rev- 
olutionary army,  and  was  wounded  and  a  prisoner  in  the  old  Sugar  House 
in  New  York,  in  the  winter  of  1780.  He  lived  in  Simsbury,  Conn.,  also  in 
Sandisfield,  Mass.,  whence  he  removed  to  Berkshire,  Tioga  county,  N.  Y., 
thence  to  Madison  county.  In  1794  he  married  Jane  Brown,  of  Blandford, 
Mass.,  who  was  born,  December  20,  1765,  and  died  April  16,  1836.  Their 
children,  nine  in  number,  were  born  in  Blandford,  Mass.,  as  follows: 

Corintha,  born  May  20,  1795,   died   1896.     William,  January  7,   1797, 

36o.     Samuel,  May  8,  1799,  died  1803.     Robert,  October  25,  1800, 

1847.     Lucy,  May  25,  1802,  died  1899.     Samuel  second,  May  n,   1804 

d  1847.    Roxana,  August  28,  1806.     Lovador,  November  6,  1808,  died 

1867.    Jane,  July  31,  1810,  died  1811. 


R.  W.  Richmond 
J.  M.  Smith 


J.  H.  Fuller 
T.  G.  Worlock 


HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK.  97 

William  Lucas  bought  of  Jeremiah  Gage  in  1865  a  part  of  the  farm 
now  owned  by  Seymour  Lamunion,  for  $574.  The  place  was  first  sold  by 
Pieter  Van  Eegen,  Hendrick  Wollenhoven  and  Walrave  Van  Heukelom 
by  John  Lincklean,  Attorney,  to  Parley  Webber.  He  sold  to  Jeremy  Stim- 
son  in  1818,  and  he  in  turn  sold  to  Walcott  Justice  in  1827.  Two  years 
later  Joseph  Justice  bought  the  same  premises  and  in  1831  Walcott  Justice 
and  wife  sold  to  Jeremiah  Gage.  William  Lucas  sold  to  Luther  Hunt  in 
1841,  consideration  $1,000.  R.  W.  Richmond  bought  it  of  Luther  Hunt  in 
1850  for  $1,100. 

William  Lucas  died  August  9,  1842,  aged  eighty-two'  years,  and  is 
buried  in  New  Woodstock.  Lucy  Lucas,  also  buried  there,  is  the  oldest 
person  in  the  cemetery,  having  reached  the  age  of  ninety-eight. 

W.  F.  Lucas,  a  grandson  of  William  Lucas,  is  a  prominent  citizen  of 
Cazenovia,  N.  Y.,  an  extensive  dealer  in  general  farm  produce,  hay,  straw, 
wool  and  live  stock. 


Fuller. 


Ebenezer  and  Hannah  [Howe]  Fuller  came  from  Connecticut  in  1800 
and  purchased  a  farm  in  Nelson,  near  the  Cazenovia  town  line.  This  be- 
came known  as  the  "  Fuller  farm,"  remaining  in  the  family  until  sold  to 
Seymour  Holmes  in  1866. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Fuller's  nine  children  were  born  on  the  farm. 

Mary,  1801-1824. 

Erastus,  married  Lucretia  Gilbert,  living  on  the  old  Gilbert  farm 
north  of  his  birthplace,  and  dying  in  ig73-  Their  only  living  child  is 
Truman,  ofCazenovia. 

Harriet,  married  David  Smith,  Jr. 

Emily,  married  Orange  Hill  of  Delphi. 

Terrel  married  Jane  Card  of  Cazenovia. 

Dwight  married  Jane  Merrick  of  Cazenovia. 

Ralph  married  Mary  Ann  Webster  of  New  Woodstock. 

George,  who  married  in  Kinderhook,  is  the  only  one  of  the  nine  children 
living.  His  home  is  in  Pulaski. 

John  H.,  married  Wilhelmina,  daughter  of  Thomas  Tucker.  Their 
only  daughter  died  in  infancy.  His  second  wife  was  Susan  G.,  daughter 
of  Dwight  Gardner,  of  Sheds.  Their  three  children  died  in  infancy.  In 
1854  Mr.  Fuller  adopted  Ella  S.  Ham,  then  one  year  old,  niece  of  his  first 
wife.  In  1874  she  married  Irving  A.  Savage,  of  New  Woodstock.  They 
have  two  children,  Carrol  H.,  and  Laura  I.,  who  live  with  them  in  Syra- 
cuse. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK. 


Erastus  and  John  Fuller  were  associated  with  Johnathan  Smith  and 
Wells  Richmond  many  years  in  buying  live  stock,  buying  annually  many 
thousands  of  dollars  worth.  John  Fuller  stayed  on  the  home  farm,  his 
parents  living  with  him.  His  mother  died  in  '47  and  his  father  in  '58. 
In  1866  Mr.  Fuller  came  to  New  Woodstock,  dying  there  June  7,  1890,  on 
his  eighty-first  birthday. 

Richmond. 

Roswell  Wells  Richmond,  son  of  Roswell  and  Thankful  Wells  Rich- 
mond, was  born  in  1813  on  Richmond  Hill,  two  miles  south  of  UeRuyter. 
When  eighteen  years  of  age,  he  bought  his  time  of  his  father  for  two 
hundred  fifty  dollars,  and  possessing  the  confidence  of  business  men,  he 
commenced  buying  wool  and  live  stock  on  borrowed  capital.  Theodore 
Warner,  an  elderly  Quaker,  living  in  DeRuyter,  appreciating  "the  boy's" 
ability  and  judgment,  was  his  first  partner  in  business.  Ezra  Benjamin,  of 
DeRuyter,  was  in  company  with  him  two  years. 

In  1835,  Mr.  Richmond  married  Caroline  Hart,  and  soon  after  became 
associated  in  business  with  her  father,  "Squire"' Abram  Hart,  one  of  the 
early  pioneers  of  DeRuyter.  In  1838,  he  removed  to  Syracuse,  and  in  com- 
pany with  his  brother-in-law,  Henry  P.  Hart,  kept  a  grocery  on  the  tow- 
path  during  the  enlargement  of  the  Erie  Canal. 

In  1842  Mr.  Richmond  exchanged  his  Syracuse  property  with  John 
Benjamin  of  Shed's  Corners  and  altered  the  house  thus  obtained  into  a 
"tavern,"  the  first  ever  kept  in  that  place,  taking  Frank  Burgess  as  part- 
ner. Mr.  Richmond  disposed  of  his  interest  in  the  hotel  to  Mr.  Burgess  in 
1847  and  moved  to  New  Woodstock,  remaining  in  that  place  until  his 
death  in  1872.  During  the  quarter  of  a  century  of  his  residence  in  New 
Woodstock,  he  was  closely  identified  with  its  business  interests,  and  was 
associated  with  Jonathan  Smith,  Erastus  Fuller  and  John  Fuller  in  buy- 
ing wool,  live  stock  and  real  estate. 

In  1857  Richmond  and  Smith  bought  wool  for  Obadiah  and  Elias 
Thorne,  of  Skaneatles.  The  financial  panic  of  "57  caught  the  Thornes  and 
caused  their  failure.  Richmond  and  Smith  were  on  their  paper  at  the 
time  for  130,000,  a  fact  which  caused  them  much  anxiety  until  all  was 
satisfactorily  arranged  with  the  creditors. 

Mr.  Richmond  was  widely  known  and  is  still  remembered  as  a 
business  man  in  Madison  and  adjoining  counties.  He  always  believed  in 
partnership,  as,  be  said,  when  there  were  losses  there  were  more  to  share 
them. 

His  family  consisted  of  one  son  and  four  daughters.  Frances  married 
Henry  S.  Gorton  and  lives  on  the  farm  familiarly  known  as  the  Wells  farm. 


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Nancy  married  Gilbert  deClercq  of  Cazenovia,  and  now  lives  in  Lebanon, 
N.  Y.  Mary*  lives  in  the  old  home  with  the  mother,  and  Carrie,  who  mar- 
ried Albert  S.  Preston,  lives  in  the  historic  old  red  schoolhouse,  which  be- 
came the  property  of  her  father  and  Thomas  Worlock,  when  no  longer 
used  for  school  purposes. 

The  only  son,  Adelbert  G.  Richmond,  early  manifested  a  desire  to  be- 
come a  business  man.  Before  he  was  thirteen  he  entered  the  general  mer- 
chandise store  of  T.  M.  Avery  at  New  Woodstock,  as  clerk.  His  father 
thought  him  too  young  to  leave  school  and  persuaded  him  to  resume  study. 
He  did  so  for  a  short  time  and  then  again  returned  to  the  same  store,  then 
managed  by  Baum  &  Stanton.  At  the  age  of  seventeen,  he  entered  a 
bank  in  Chittenango,  N.  Y  ,  in  less  than  a  year  becoming  teller.  He  re- 
mained there  three  years,  then  went  into  the  Mohawk  Valley  Bank,  re- 
maining there  as  teller  three  years.  In  1862  General  Spinner,  United 
States  Treasurer,  summoned  him  to  Washington,  where  he  became  pay- 
ing teller.  It  is  recorded  that  Mr.  Richmond  and  two  other  men  of  like 
positions,  one  busy  day  during  the  civil  war,  paid  out  over  the  counter 
seven  million  dollars.  The  fractional  currency  issued  during  the  war  was 
first  given  to  the  public  through  the  hands  of  Mr.  Richmond. 

In  1865,  Mr.  Richmond  became  cashier  of  the  Canajoharie  National 
Bank,  acting  in  that  capacity  twenty-eight  years.  In  1893  he  was  elected 
president,  and  in  1895  he  became  also  president  of  the  Fort  Plain 
Mechanics'  and  Farmers'  Bank,  serving  both  institutions  until  his  death 
in  1899,  at  his  mother's  home  where  he  was  enjoying  a  brief  visit. 

Mr.  Richmond  was,  like  his  father,  a  self-made  man.  The  motto  of 
the  Richmond  family,  for  ten  generations,  "Resolve  well  and  persevere," 
became  his  watchword,  and  although  handicapped  by  his  limited  early 
education,  he  became  known  as  a  man  of  broad  culture.  In  whatever  he 
undertook  his  interest  was  unflagging.  Botany,  Archaeology,  old  china, 
each  received  his  attention  and  fine  collections  were  the  result,  particular- 
ly of  Indian  relics.  Mr.  Richmond  was  adopted  by  the  Onondaga  Tribe 
of  Indians  and  given  the  name  of  "Con-ne-shon-go"  which  means  "Keeper 
of  the  Law"  and  was  honorary  curator  of  New  York  State  at  the  time  of 
his  death. 

The  Richmonds  are  of  English  descent.  John  Richmond,  born  1594, 
came  to  America  from  Ashton  Keynes  in  1635,  and  settled  in  Taunton, 
Mass.  The  ancestors  of  the  New  Woodstock  Richmonds  afterward  moved 
to  Rhode  Island.  The  grandfather  of  R.  W.  and  M.  W.  Richmond  was  a 
Baptist  preacher  in  Cherry  Valley  and  Fairfield,  N.  Y.  A  daughter  of  John 
Alden  married  into  one  branch  of  the  Richmond  family. 


•Publisher's  note:  One  of  the  writers  of  this  history;  a  graduate  of  Cazenovia  Semi- 
nary, where  she  won  the  prize  for  excellence  in  mathematics  in  the  year  of  hergradua- 
tion. 


I00  HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

Mrs.  Caroline  D.  Richmond. 

Mrs.  Caroline  D.  Richmond  was  the  second  child  and  oldest  daughter 
of  Abram  Hart  and  Nancy  Gillet.  Her  grandfather,  Thomas  Hart,  was  a 
Revolutionary  soldier,  and  her  grandmother,  Ruth  Payne  Hart,  a  sister  of 
Elisha  and  Samuel  Payne,  the  founders  of  Hamilton,  N.  Y.  From  a 
genealogical  record  in  Mrs.  Richmond's  possession,  embracing  ten  genera- 
tions, we  learn  that  Jonathan  Gillet  and  his  brother,  Nathan,  came  to 
America  in  the  ship  Mary  and  John  in  1630,  and  settled  in  Dorchester, 
Mass.  Jonathan  and  family  removed  in  1635  to  Windsor,  Conn.  Simeon 
Gillet,  one  of  the  children  of  the  fifth  generation,  was  Mrs.  Richmond's 
great-grandfather  and  was  the  first  person  who  died  in  the  town  of  Eaton, 
N.  Y.  His  daughter,  Dorcas  Gillet,  married  Lewis  Wilson,  and  was  the 
first  person  married  in  that  town. 

The  record  further  states  that  Simeon  Gillet  was  born  in  Wintonbury, 
now  Bloomfield,  Conn.,  October  16, 1744,  [Old  Style],  baptized,  October  23, 
1744,  died  January  17,  1796,  in  Eaton,  N.  Y.,  [New  Style.] 

Caroline  Hart  was  born  in  DeRuyter,  August  31,  1813.  Her  early 
years  were  spent  in  useful  employments.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  she  spun 
the  yarn  for  fifty  yards  of  carpet,  preparing  all  the  warp  and  filling.  She 
had  a  good  common  school  education,  and  wishing  to  teach,  she  went  be- 
fore Ira  G.  Barnes,  Dr.  Ira  Spencer,  and  David  Maine,  of  DeRuyter,  for 
examination.  These  men  were  what  were  in  those  days  called  Inspectors. 
Obtaining  a  certificate,  she  taught  on  Quaker  Hill,  Clark  Hill,  Richmond 
Hill,  and  also  in  Georgetown  and  Otselic.  As  was  the  custom  then,  she 
"boarded  around,"  teaching  in  the  summer  for  six  shillings  per  week  and 
in  winter  for  twelve  shillings.  One  of  the  events  she  distinctly  recalls  is 
having  rye  pancakes  for  breakfast  and  taking  them  to  school  and  eating 
them  cold  for  her  dinner.  Often,  however,  instead  of  eating  them  herself 
she  fed  them  to  the  colts  that  were  pastured  near  the  school  house.  The 
evening  meal  was  also  usually  composed  of  rye  in  some  form. 

In  1835  she  was  married  to  Roswell  Wells  Richmond,  and  lived  three 
years  in  DeRuyter,  then  moved  to  Syracuse,  living  there  four  years.  Dur- 
ing her  life  in  Syracuse,  the  Erie  Canal  was  enlarged,  and  the  tunnel  on 
the  New  York  Central  Railroad  was  built.  Mrs.  Richmond  saw  the  first 
train  of  cars  that  entered  the  city.  The  powder  explosion,  when  thirty  lives 
were  lost  and  many  people  maimed  for  life,  happened  while  she  lived  there 
and  is  well  remembered  by  her.  In  1842  her  home  was  at  Shed's  Corners. 

In  1844,  when  Richmond  and  Burgess  kept  the  hotel  at  Shed's  Corners, 
there  was  a  severe  storm  and  the  roads  were  badly  drifted.  The  farmers 
from  New  Woodstock,  Erieville,  Georgetown  and  DeRuyter  turned  out  to 
clear  the  roads,  meeting  at  Shed's  Corners.  Those  from  Erieville  were 
followed  by  a  man  and  his  wife  who  made  no  acknowledgment  of  the  as- 
sistance of  the  men.  Some  of,the  party,  resenting  the  ingratitude  of  the 


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couple,  took  a  two-gallon  keg  of  oysters  from  their  sleigh,  and  emptied  it, 
replacing  the  keg  in  the  sleigh.  Mrs.  Richmond  cooked  the  oysters,  not 
knowing  how  they  were  obtained.  Walter  Ackley,  one  of  the  party,  in 
after  years,  when  meeting  Mrs.  Richmond  would  frequently  refer  to  her 
cooking  stolen  oysters.  In  1847  the  family  moved  to  New  Woodstock,  re- 
maining here  since  that  time. 

Mrs.  Richmond  and  Frank  G.  Hart  of  Waitsburg,  Washington,  are  all 
that  remain  of  the  ten  children  that  composed  the  family.  With  the  ex- 
ception of  the  four  years  in  Syracuse,  Mrs.  Richmond's  life  has  been  spent 
in  Madison  County,  and  more  than  a  half  century  in  the  quiet  little  vil- 
lage of  New  Woodstock.  Notwithstanding  her  eighty-seven  years,  her 
mind  is  still  active;  the  daily  paper  is  read  with  interest,  and  the  leading 
events  are  thoroughly  understood. 


Gorton. 

Prominent  among  the  early  settlers  of  Rhode  Island  was  "Samuell" 
Gorton,  born  at  Gorton,  England,  in  1592.  He  was  a  clothier  in  London 
and  emigrated  to  America  in  1636.  Getting  into  trouble  with  the  Ply- 
mouth authorities  in  1637  because  of  vigorously  defending  his  servant  who 
had  committed  the  sin  of  smiling  in  church,  Mr.  Gorton  was  obliged  to 
leave  the  colony.  Trouble  in  other  localities  decided  the  "  Gortonists  " 
to  move  out  of  the  jurisdiction  of  Massachusetts.  In  1642  Mr.  Gorton 
purchased  of  the  Narragansett  Indians  laud  then  known  by  the  Indian 
name  of  Shawmet,  afterward  called  Warwick  for  the  Earl  of  Warwick. 
Gorton  and  his  followers  were  not  allowed  peaceable  possession,  and  so 
went  to  Boston  under  promise  of  fair  treatment.  Their  claims  were  ignor- 
ed and  they  were  tried  for  heresy  and  imprisoned,  Gorton  nearly  losing 
his  life.  The  next  General  Court  in  1644  set  them  at  liberty.  The  same 
year  Gorton  became  a  Magistrate  at  Portsmouth,  and  also  secured  from 
the  Narragansetts  a  cession  of  their  lands  to  England  for  the  formation  of 
a  state  where  all  might  enjoy  religious  freedom.  He  was  one  of  the  cor- 
porators of  the  state  of  Rhode  Island  under  the  first  charter,  and  in  1645 
was  commissioner  to  England  in  its  interest.  Successful  in  his  mission, 
the  people  honored  him  with  the  successive  offices  of  Assemblyman,  Judge, 
Senator,  and  in  1651,  President  or  Governor.  He  died  in  1677  leaving 
three  sons  and  six  daughters. 

Descendants  of  "  Samuell  Gorton  "  who  have  lived  in  New  Woodstock 
are  Sally  Gorton  [Gaylord],  second  wife  of  Isaac  Morse,  who  was  here  in 
1816,  and  Mr.  and  Mrs.  P.  R.  Gorton,  who  were  in  the  place  from  1838  to 
1854.  The  spirit  of  religious  liberty  shown  by  Samuell  Gorton  was  ap- 
parent in  P.  R.  Gorton  of  the  sixth  generation,  as  was  shown  in  letters  of 


102  HISTORY  OF  NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

commendation  given  when  lie  was  clerk  of  the  Baptist  church  at  a  time 
when  sectarian  feeling  ran  high.  These  letters,  in  which  the  applicants 
were  "affectionately  dismissed  "  were  attributed  to  his  liberality  and  de- 
sire to  promote  Christian  unity.  A  year  after  he  ceased  to  be  clerk,  a  re- 
solution was  passed  by  the  church  that  the  two  letters  given  at  that  time 
as  passports  to  a  church  of,another  denomination  should  not  be  considered 
a  precedent  for  future  action. 

Three  brothers  of  the  seventh  generation  of  Gortons  came  to  New 
Woodstock  later.  David  Allyn  Gorton  in  1854  as  a  carriage  maker  and 
was  employed  by  S.  E.  Morse.  He  remained  in  the  place  three  years. 
He  is  now  a  physician  in  Brooklyn.  He  is  also  a  man  of  literary  ability, 
having  written  several  scientific  and  philosophical  works. 

Charles  B.,  the  youngest  brother,  entered  the  army  and  died  during 
the  civil  war. 

The  second  brother,  Henry  S.  Gorton,  came  to  New  Woodstock  from 
the  town  of  Mayfield  in  1855  on  his  eighteenth  birthday.  He  learned  the 
carriage  maker's  trade  of  his  brother,  during  the  year,  receiving  his  board 
and  nine  and  a  half  cents  per  day.  In  1856  he  received  thirty-six  dollars 
for  the  first  six  months'  work,  and  one  hundred  fifty  dollars  for  nearly 
four  months'  work  in  Fayetteville  for  Zebediah  Harris.  He  then  return- 
ed to  New  Woodstock  and  worked  for  S.  E.  Morse  at  different  times,  and  in 
a  shop  with  O.  P.  Ferry  until  1867,  when  he  built  shops  of  his  own.  He 
carried  on  an  extensive  business  in  wagons  and  cutters  until  1885  when 
machine-made  work  made  the  business  unprofitable. 

Since  1881  he  has  been  interested  in  farming  and  now  owns  and  lives 
upon  the  farm  owned  at  different  times  by  B.  F.  Hatch,  Orville  Wells, 
Richmond,  Fuller  and  Worlock. 

Mr.  Gorton  has  aided  the  village  in  the  past  by  his  business  enter- 
prise and  in  1896  he  built  on  McKinley  street  one  of  the  most  modern  and 
convenient  residences  which  the  village  possesses.  He  married  in  1861 
Frances  A.,  daughter  of  R.  W.  and  C.  D.  Richmond. 


M.  W.  Richmond. 


Matthew  Wells  Richmond,  fifth  child  and  third  sou  of  Roswell  and 
Thankful  Wells  Richmond,  was  named  after  his  maternal  grandfather, 
Matthew  Wells,  one  of  the  early  pioneers  of  DeRuyter,  who  took  up  a  farm 
of  more  than  two  hundred  acres,  which  is  now  owned  by  James  Hunt. 

After  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age,  his  home,  for  several  years,  was 
with  his  brother,  R.  W.  Richmond,  at  Shed's  Corners.  When  twenty- 
three,  he  married  Elizabeth  Smith,  who  died  when  their  only  child,  Carrie, 
now  Mrs.  Albert  Stanton,  was  seven  years  old.  He  then  married  Irene 


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Perkins,  of  Cazenovia.  His  third  wife  was  Mrs.  Arminda  Wells,  of  De- 
Ruyter,  who  brought  her  three  children  into  the  family.  Julia,  now  Mrs. 
Charles  B.  Maxson,  of  Westerly,  R.  I.,  Ada,  who  became  the  wife  of  the 
late  Henry  D.  Maxson,  and  Wilfred  D.  Wells,  who  married  Mina,  daughter 
of  the  late  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  W.  Gunn,  of  this  place.  Their  home  is  in 
New  London,  Conn.  His  last  wife,  Harriet  G.  Hart,  died  in  1899,  surviv- 
ing him  less  than  two  weeks. 

Mr.  Richmond  went  to  Union  Valley  from  Sheds  Corners,  where  he 
kept  a  store  one  year.  In  1853  he  came  to  New  Woodstock.  His  first 
home  was  the  farm  now  owned  by  Seymour  LaMunion.  He  then  pur- 
chased of  Mrs.  Philena  Abbott  that  part  of  Isaac  Morse's  farm  now  owned 
by  Mr.  Mead.  In  1865  he  bought  the  Seth  Savage  farm  near  Delphi 
Station,  where,  with  the  exception  of  two  years  spent  in  DeRuyter,  he 
lived  until  his  death  in  1899. 


Henry  Payne  Hart. 


Henry  Payne  Hart,  son  of  Abram  Hart  and  Nancy  Gillet  was  born  in 
DeRuyter  June  6,  1816.  He  married  in  Saliua,  N.  Y.,  January  16,  1839, 
Mary  Bunker,  whose  birthplace  was  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.  She  was  the 
daughter  of  Alexander  Bunker,  who  once  owned  DeRuyter  Springs,  The 
Bunkers  were  Quakers,  and  Mrs.  Hart  was  therefore  a  birthright  Quaker. 
Several  years  after  her  marriage,  two  Quaker  women  visited  her  and 
wished  her  to  say  she  was  sorry  she  married  Mr.  Hart  as  he  was  not  a 
Quaker.  As  she  refused  to  do  so,  she  was  dropped  from  the  Quaker 
church. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hart  lived  three  years  in  Syracuse,  and  Mr.  Hart  rode 
on  the  first  New  York  Central  passenger  train  that  entered  Syracuse. 

Eleven  children  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hart;  four  died  in  infancy. 
Charles  H.,  married  Dr.  Whitford's  daughter  of  DeRuyter.  He  died  near 
Syracuse,  in  June  1895.  George  E.,  of  New  Brnnswick,  N.  J. ;  Milton  B., 
died  in  Brooklyn,  April  8,  1882,  Helen  C.,  [Mrs.  E.  L.  Bennett,]  of  Bridge- 
port, Conn.,  Frank  G.  and  Fred  A.,  of  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.;  Mary  E. 
Connor,  died  in  Brooklyn,  Decembers,  1887.  Mrs.  Hart  died  in  DeRuyter. 
March  17,  1856.  September  15,  1857,  Mr.  Hart  married  Harriet  Gardner, 
daughter  of  Dwight  Gardner  of  Sheds  Corners. 

Mr.  Hart  was  for  many  years  a  prominent  merchant  in  DeRuyter.  In 
the  spring  of  1856  he  purchased  and  occupied  the  Fisk  farm  near  New 
Woodstock.  He  was  very  patriotic,  and  when  the  Civil  war  began,  his 
three  eldest  sons  joined  the  army,  Charles  and  George  in  the  Third  New 
York  Cavalry,  and  Milton,  though  only  sixteen,  enlisting  as  drummer  boy 
in  the  seventy-sixth  New  York  infantry.  Charles  was  afterward  first  lieu- 


I04  HISTORY  OF  NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

tenant  in  the  First  United  States  Colored  Cavalry.  He  took  part  in  fifty- 
six  engagements  and  was  confined  in  Libby  prison  three  months.  George 
E.  was  orderly  for  General  Sedgwick. 

In  1862  Mr.  Hart  accepted  a  position  in  the  New  York  Custom  House, 
removing  his  family  to  Brooklyn.  In  the  fall  of  1868  he  purchased  a  fruit 
farm  near  New  Brunswick,  N.  J.  After  living  there  a  number  of  years  he 
sold  the  farm  and  went  into  business  in  New  Brunswick.  From  there  he 
went  to  New  York  city  where  he  died  November^,  1880.  His  wife  sur- 
vived him,  and  afterward  became  the  wife  of  Matthew  Richmond,  of  New 
Woodstock.  She'died  September^,  1899. 

Henry  Warner  Slocum. 


?T  In  the  winter  of  1847-8,  Henry  W.  Slocum  taught  in  the  old  red 
school-house  at  New  Woodstock,  going'to  West  Point  ^as  a  cadet  in  July, 
1848.  The  patience,  self-control  and  just  dealing  acquired  in  teaching 
were  a  fit  preparation  for  military  life.  Graduating  at  West  Point  in  1852, 
he  was  commissioned  Second  Lieutenant  and'assigned  to  duty  against/the 
Seminole  Indians  in  Florida. 

He  came  to  New  Woodstock  in  1854  and  married  Miss  Clara  Rice,  their 
acquaintance  dating  from  their  student  days  at  Cazenovia  Seminary.  For 
three  years  the  home  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Slocum  was  at  Fort  Moultrie,  S.  C. 
They  then  came  to  Syracuse,  Mr.  Slocum  resigning  his  commission  as  First 
Lieutenant  and  taking  up  the  practice  of  law.  He  invested  money  in 
some  city  lots  now  called  Slocum  Avenue.  During  this  time,  he  served 
one  term  in  the  Assembly,  and|as  treasurer  of  Onondaga  County. 

When  the  Civil  war  began  he  tendered  his  services  and  became  colonel 
of  the  ajth.,  N.  Y.  Volunteers.  He  was  severely  wounded  in  the  thigh, 
July  21,  '6r,  at  Bull  Run,  which  washis  first  battle.  August  9,  he  waspro- 
moted  to  Brigadier  General,  and  the  4th  of  July,  '62,  saw  him  commission- 
ed Major  General  of  Volunteers.  Through  the  war  Slocum's  bravery  and 
wisdom  were  acknowledged. 

After  the  war,  he  resided  in  Brooklyn,  practicing  law  and  serving 
three  terms  as  congressman.  He  died  in  1894,  aged  nearly  sixty-seven 
years.  His  wife,  who  is  remembered  as  "  a  woman  of  noble  character  and 
personal  charm,"  survived  him  a  few  years.  The  memory  of  such  parents 
is  a  priceless  heritage'to] their  three  children. 


Major-General  Slocum 
District  School  Teacher  in  New  Woodstock,  J  847- J  848 


R.  J.  Sunderlin 
Lester  Lewis  E.  C  Wellington 


HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK.  105 


Lester  Lewis. 


Lester  Lewis,  now  a  resident  of  Nyack,  N.  Y.,  has  led  an  eventful  life. 
He  was  born  in  Pratt's  Hollow,  N.  Y.,  January  i,  1837.  His  father, 
George  Lewis,  moved  with  his  family  to  New  Woodstock  in  1847,  when 
Lester  was  a  lad  of  ten.  The  following  winter  he  attended  school  in  the 
old  red  school-house,  Henry  W.  Slocum,  afterward  Gen.  Slocum,  being 
the  teacher.  Mr.  Lewis  considered  Henry  Slocum  the  best  teacher  he  ever 
had  and  an  excellent  disciplinarian. 

Although  Lester  liked  a  share  in  all  the  fun,  he  was  a  favorite  with  all 
who  wanted  the  help  of  an  active  boy,  and  he  was  never  out  of  employ- 
ment. While  still  in  his  teens  he  left  New  Woodstock  for  Birmingham, 
Conn.,  remaining  one  year,  thence  going  to  Flushing,  Long  Island,  where 
he  learned  the  trade  of  tin-smith  of  his  uncle,  Henry  Lewis.  His  brothers, 
George  and  Everett,  were  already  in  Flushing.  George  became  foreman 
after  learning  the  trade,  and  afterward,  with  Everett  as  partner,  built  up  a 
prosperous  trade  which  he  still  continues.  Everett  died  in  Flushing  in 
1894. 

The  monotony  of  such  a  quiet  life  did  not  suit  Lester  and  he  went  to 
sea,  taking  several  voyages,  one  to  the  West  Indies  and  at  another  time 
going  to  London. 

In  1861,  Mr.  Lewis  enlisted  as  a  member  of  the  83d  N.  Y.  Volunteers. 
He  was  taken  prisoner  in  the  second  battle  of  Bull  Run;  was  paroled,  and 
in  company  with  another  soldier,  made  his  way  home  from  Ohio,  with 
scarcely  any  money,  some  of  the  time  riding  on  the  cars,  and  walking 
when  they  could  not  get  a  ride,  receiving  good  treatment  throughout  the 
whole  of  the  journey  until  they  reached  Chitteuango.  Being  exchanged, 
Mr.  Lewis  served  the  remainder  of  his  time  in  the  Ninth  Regt.  N.  Y.  State 
Militia. 

After  having  been  honorably  discharged  from  the  army,  Mr.  Lewis 
joined  the  police  force  in  New  York  City  in  1864.  He  served  twenty  years, 
retiring  on  half  pay  in  1884.  Mr.  Lewis  is  six  feet  three  inches  in  height 
and  is  a  man  of  fine  physical  proportions.  While  he  was  in  the  metro- 
politan police  service,  he  was  chosen  out  of  a  force  of  three  thousand 
policemen  as  a  model  for  a  statue,  which  was  placed  in  Cypress  Hill  Ceme- 
tery, Brooklyn. 

Mr.  Lewis  is  now  acting  as  special  policeman  in  the  Empire  Building, 
corner  of  Broadway  and  Rector  New  York  City.  He  was  married  in  1861 
to  Harriet  J.  Ellis,  and  has  two  children.  He  has  a  retentive  memory  and 
relates  many  interesting  reminiscences.  His  father,  George  Lewis,  was 


I06  HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK. 

by  trade  a  tanner  and  currier  and  will  be  remembered  by  many  as  he  re- 
sided in  New  Woodstock  twenty-seven  years,  dying  in  1874.  He  was  a 
large  man  and  two  of  his  sons  resembled  him.  Lester  Lewis  relates  that 
at  one  time  his  father  would  smoke  and  chew  tobacco  at  the  same  time. 
One  day  it  struck  him  that  it  was  a  foolish  and  unhealthy  habit.  Using  a 
favorite  interjection,  he  exclaimed  :  "Jocks,  I  will  never  smoke  nor  chew 
tobacco  again  !"  and  he  kept  his  word. 

Besides  the  father  and  mother,  the  Lewis  family  consisted  of  three  sons 
and  five  daughters.  Celia,  who  married  Edward  C.  Wellington,  is  the 
only  one  residing  in  New  Woodstock  at  the  present  time.  She  lives  in  the 
old  home  on  Mill  Street. 


Henry  M.  Kelloggf. 


Henry  M.  Kellogg  was  born  in  Williamstown,  Oswego  county,  N.  Y., 
August  16,  1841.  He  is  the  son  of  the  late  Jeremiah  and  Eunice  Kellogg 
and  the  youngest  of  five  children.  His  father  was  the  owner  of  a  woolen 
mill  in  Pulaski,  Oswego  county,  where  they  removed  when  Henry  was  an 
infant.  Later  they  resided  at  Union  Square,  removing  to  New  Woodstock 
in  1848.  Mr.  Kellogg  purchased  a  woolen  factory,  cloth  dressing  and  dye- 
ing establishment  in  this  village  where  he  carried  on  the  business  for  years. 
The  factory  has  long  since  disappeared  It  was  run  by  water  power,  and 
was  located  on  the  south  bank  of  the  stream  opposite  where  the  willow 
trees  now  stand,  west  of  the  stage  road  from  Woodstock  to  Cazenovia, 
below  the  red  grist  mill  owned  by  William  Pierce. 

He  purchased  a  small  cottage  opposite  the  gravel  bank,  next  door  to 
Samuel  Walker's,  where  the  family  resided  for  years.  South  of  the  cottage 
was  a  two-acre  field,  through  which  a  street  running  west  has  since  been 
opened.  TheThurber  family  were  the  next  neighbors  on  the  south,  John 
Thurber  and  Henry  being  playmates.  Henry  attended  the  district  school 
opposite  the  watering-trough  on  the  road  to  Shed's  Corners.  Among 
the  teachers  he  remembers  particularly,  Mr.  Chase,  Win.  Gunn,  andLyman 
Larrabee.  The  old  school  house  was  heated  with  a  wood  stove,  and  one 
cold  winter  day  when  the  wood  was  green  and  covered  with  ice  and 
snow,  the  fire  would  not  burn,  so  Teacher  Larrabee  gave  the  girls  a  recess. 
Mustering  the  boys  into  one  rank  according  to  height,  the  tall  ones  on 
the  right  of  the  line,  and  arming  each  with  a  stick  of  green  wood,  he  gave 
the  command,  "  Forward,  march  !  "  and  moved  his  column  in  single  file 
with  wood  at  "right  shoulder  shift"  down  the  principal  street,  of  the 
village  to  the  woodhouse  of  Col.  Bell,  one  of  the  trustees.  There,  exchaug. 


H.  M.  Kellogg 
H.  S.  Gotten 


M.  C.  Thomas 
A.  G.  Richmond 


HISTORY  OF   NEW    WOODSTOCK.  107 

iug  the  green  wood  for  some  of  the  Colonel's  dry  maple,  the  column 
marched  back  through  town  with  its  load  of  dry  wood,  and  studies  were 
resumed. 

Among  his  schoolmates  were  John  Thurber,  Ralph  Tucker,  Henry  and 
Windsor  Gunn,  George  Slocum,  Calvin  Lamb,  Benny  Freeborn,  Will 
Hubbard,  Lester  Judson,  Walter  and  John  Cadogan,  Lester  Lewis, 
Adelbert  Richmond,  Henry  Fulton,  Henry  and  Austin  Smith  and  Jim 
Young.  The  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  for  eight  years  was  Elder  Ful- 
ton, and  during  his  administration  the  church  prospered  wonderfully. 
Very  successful  revival  meetings  were  held  and  hundreds  were  converted. 
The  factory  dam  was  the  place  selected  for  the  immersion  of  these  converts. 
No  postponement  of  the  baptisms  on  account  of  weather.  He  used  to  as- 
sist in  cutting  holes  through  the  ice  to  reach  the  water  where  delicate 
women  as  well  as  strong  men  were  immersed,  even  in  zero  weather.  For 
years  an  old  elm  tree  marked  the  spot  where  these  baptisms  were  held, 
in  the  rear  of  the  home  of  Widow  Davis.  Among  the  converts  was  one  of 
his  sisters,  Sarah  Lurena.  She  afterward  married  William  Naylor  and 
settled  in  Ohio.  His  older  sister  Caroline  married  Sylvester  Watson,  and 
also  made  her  home  in  the  west.  Both  sisters  are  now  living  and  often 
speak  of  their  "dear  old  home  in  New  Woodstock."  His  father  died  in 
1854,  while  in  Texas  on  a  visit.  His  remains  were  brought  back  and 
buried  in  the  old  churchyard,  and  afterward  removed  to  Cortland  where 
they  now  rest  beside  those  of  his  wife  Eunice,  who  died  in  1892. 

Henry  began  his  mercantile  life  in  the  grocery  store  of  Ezra  Jenkins, 
on  the  corner  east  of  the  hotel  kept  by  Orrin  and  Artemus  Smith.  Soon 
after  he  was  made  deputy  postmaster  under  James  Knight  in  the  store  of 
Jerry  Bell  on  the  corner  opposite  Squire  Lathrop's.  While  sleeping  in  the 
chamber  of  the  store,  it  became  his  duty  during  the  political  campaign  of 
1856  to  take  care  of  the  banner  which  was  suspended  from  Bell's  store  to 
Squire  Lathrop's.  The  banner  bore  this  inscription:  "Republican  nomi- 
nation for  President  and  Vice-President — Fremont  and  Dayton." 

These  early  lessons  in  Republican  politics  have  stuck  by  him  ever 
since,  and  from  his  first  vote,  cast  as  a  soldier  in  the  army  when  away  down 
in  the  woods  of  Alabama,  for  Abraham  Lincoln,  to  his  last  vote  for  his  com- 
rade, William  McKinley,  he  has  always  voted  the  Republican  ticket.  He 
has  been  invited  frequently  by  his  old  friend  Joe  Coley  to  "come  over  on 
the  Lord's  side  and  vote  the  Democratic  ticket,"  but  he  has  so  far  declined 
all  such  invitations  and  stuck  to  his  colors. 

Leaving  Woodstock,  he  attended  school  at  the  Seneca  County  Academy 
in  Republic,  Ohio,  where  his  mother  resided.  After  teaching  school  for 
a  period  he  accepted  a  position  on  the  Little  Miami  R.  R.  at  Cincinnati, 
Ohio.  In  the  latter  part  of  February,  1861,  while  running  on  this  rail- 
road, he  rode  upon  the  locomotive  which  drew  Abraham  Lincoln  from 


I08  HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

Cincinnati  to  Columbus,  O.,  on  his  way  to  Washington  to  his  first  inaugur- 
al as  president  of  the  United  States.  President  Lincoln  spoke  from  the 
platform  at  each  of  the  seven  stations  at  which  his  train  stopped.  The 
next  time  he  saw  the  president,  Henry  was  in  the  ranks  of  the  Army  of  the 
Potomac  as  a  soldier  when  the  President  and  General  Joseph  Hooker  com- 
manding the  army  reviewed  the  troops,  just  before  the  battle  of  Chan- 
cellorsville,  in  1863.  Henry  enlisted  on  April  20,  1861,  the  first  call  for 
Volunteers  eight  days  after,  in  Co.  G,  5th  Ohio  Vols.,  and  re-enlisting  in 
the  55th  Ohio  Vols.  Co.  G,  served  to  the  end  of  the  war,  in  both  the  Army 
of  the  Potomac  and  in  Sherman's  army  from  Lookout  Mountain  and  Atlan- 
ta to  the  Sea. 

At  the  close  of  the  war,  Mr.  Kellogg  settled  in  Savannah,  Ga.,  was  a 
revenue  officer  of  the  government  for  a  long  time  both  in  Savannah 
and  in  Boston,  Mass.,  and  finally  settled  in  Cortland,  N.  Y.,  in  1870. 
After  conducting  a  grocery  business  for  five  years  under  the  name  of  Cloyes 
&  Kellogg,  he  sold  out  and  formed  a  co-partnership  under  the  title  of  Kel- 
logg &  Place,  purchasing  the  hardware  business  of  Wickwire  Bros.  In 
1881  he  bought  his  partner's  interest  and  for  twenty  years  has  conducted 
his  present  business  of  Hardware,  Stoves,  Furnaces  and  Plumbing  in  his 
own  name. 

He  married  Miss  Ella  Quantock  of  Savannah,  Ga.,  whose  acquaintance 
he  made  while  a  soldier  in  Sherman's  army,  soon  after  the  capture  of  the 
city.  He  has  had  three  children.  His  son,  James,  aged  eighteen,  was  just 
leaving  Cortland  Normal  School  in  1888  to  enter  Syracuse  University, 
when  taken  suddenly  ill  and  died  in  twenty-four  hours.  His  oldest  daugh- 
ter, Florence,  married  and  settled  in  Savannah,  Ga.,  and  his  youngest, 
Carrie,  likewise  in  Troy,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Kellogg  is  the  secretary  of  the  Erie  and  Central  N.  Y.  R.  R.  Co., 
and  also  director.  He  is  railroad  Commissioner  of  the  city  of  Cortland, 
and  director  of  the  National  Bank,  treasurer  and  clerk  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  the  First  M.  E.  church,  and  one  of  Cortland's  oldest  business 
men.  He  retains  many  pleasant  memories  of  his  boyhood's  home  in  the 
lovely  village  of  New  Woodstock,  and  especially  of  the  old  home  in  the 
humble  cottage  under  the  hill.  During  a  brief  visit  two  years  since,  he 
wandered  through  the  old  churchyard,  and  among  its  inhabitants  found 
more  of  his  old  friends  than  among  the  living. 

Among  other  pleasant  memories  is  that  of  Riley  Bond,  a  most  beauti- 
ful whistler,  who  would  make  better  music  than  an  organ.  Also  old 
"Squire  Lathrop,"  loved  by  everybody.  He  drove  to  Belmont  and  found 
the  remains  of  the  old  house  where  his  father  began  housekeeping  and 
where  his  brothers  and  sisters  were  born.  He  remembers  the  first  artist 
who  came  to  Woodstock  to  take  pictures.  He  located  in  the  parlor  of 
Mrs.  Collins'  house,  next  door  to  Henry  Knickerbocker's  harness  shop, 


HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK.  1 09 

and  there  took  daguerreotypes,  if  the  subject  could  sit  still  long  enough. 
Henry  had  his  picture  taken,  holding  "  Trip,"  his  little  dog,  in  his  arms. 
This  must  have  been  about  the  year  1850.  Those  pictures  have  not  faded 
or  changed  although  over  fifty  years  old. 

Mr.  Kellogg  has  been  a  member  of  the  G.  A.  R.  for  thirty-one  years, 
is  past  commander  of  Grover  Post  No.  98  G.  A.  R.  and  its  present  chaplain. 
James  H.  Kellogg,  Camp  No.  48  Sous  of  Veterans,  was  named  after  his  de- 
ceased sou. 


Brownson. 


Isaac  Kellogg  Browuson  was  born  in  Fenner  in  1810.  In  1838,  he 
graduated  at  Madison,  now  Colgate  University.  He  was  ordained  the  same 
year  at  Peterboro,  N.  Y.,  and  went  as  a  Baptist  missionary  to  Ohio,  then 
the  far,  "wild  west."  He  labored  on  that  field  until  1847,  when  he  came 
to  New  Woodstock  as  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church,  remaining  five  years. 
He  then  went  to  Michigan,  then  to  Chitteuango,  N.  Y.,  then  again  to 
Ohio,  eventually  returning  once  more  to  his  native  state,  preaching  for 
some  years  in  Georgetown. 

Mr.  Brownson  married  Esther  Payne,  daughter  of  E.  M.  Payne,  of 
Hamilton,  N.  Y.  They  had  one  son,  Edward  Brownson,  who  was  drown- 
ed August  ii,  1862,  on  his  twenty-first  birthday  and  was  buried  at  New 
Woodstock. 

Mr.  Brownson's  last  pastorate  was  at  Sherburne,  N.  Y.  In  1850,  he 
married  Mercy  W.  Wetherbee,  of  Cambridgeport,  Mass.  Mrs.  Brownson 
was  a  woman  of  superior  education  and  assisted  Mr.  Brownson  for  several 
years  in  conductinga  select  school  in  New  Woodstock  Academy,  and  much 
of  its  success  was  due  to  her  ability. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brownson  finally  removed  from  New  Woodstock  to 
Fayetteville,  where  Mrs.  Brownson  died  in  1890,  her  once  bright  intellect 
becoming  clouded  in  her  later  year.  Mr.  Brownson  survived  her  about 
ten  years.  He  was  a  man  of  large  stature,  peculiar  personality,  and  de- 
cided opinions.  He  was  a  keen  thinker  and  a  fine  scholar,  but  lacked  the 
power  of  imparting  knowledge  which  Mrs.  Brownson  possessed  in  such  a 
remarkable  degree.  A  man  of  poetic  fancy,  he  often  contributed  by  his 
poems  to  the  pleasure  of  an  intellectual  gathering. 


HO  HISTORY  OF  NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


James  Stuart. 


James  Stuart  was  born  in  the  town  of  Minden,  Montgomery  county,  N. 
Y.,  April  22,  1808.  When  between  two  and  three  years  of  age  his  parents 
moved  to  West  Eaton,  N.  Y.,  the  place  then  being  a  wilderness.  His 
parents  built  a  log  house  aud  covered  it  with  elm  bark.  When  only  six 
years  of  age  he  walked  from  his  father's  house  to  Morrisville,  a  distance 
of  three  miles  through  the  woods  to  school.  In  the  short  days  of  fall  and 
early  winter,  it  would  be  dark  before  he  could  reach  home,  yet  nothing 
but  fear  of  bears  would  ever  keep  him  from  school. 

In  1838,  Mr.  Stuart  married  Marinda,  daughter  of  Captain  George 
Maxwell,  of  Stow,  Mass.  Mrs.  Stuart  was  aunt  to  Ex-Senator  Maxwell, 
of  Iowa.  Their  early  home  was  in  Eaton,  on  the  homestead  of  his  father 
which  he  purchased  of  his  brother,  William,  the  latter  having  purchased 
the  Ebenezer  Corbin  farm  at  West  Woodstock,  now  owned  by  Mrs.  Philander 
Buell.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Stuart  had  five  children.  Those  living  are  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Stearns,  of  Truxton,  Mrs.  M.  E.  Cook,  of  Syracuse,  and  Mrs.  F. 
C.  Covil,  of  New  Woodstock. 

Mr.  Stuart  remained  on  the  homestead  until  1850.  He  then  removed 
to  New  Woodstock,  purchasing  the  farm  known  as  the  Cotes  farm,  a  half 
mile  west  of  the  village.  He  still  owns  that  farm,  but  resides  in  the  vil- 
lage of  New  Woodstock,  in  the  old  "  Elder  Peck  house,"  which  he  owns. 

Mr.  Stuart,  though  ninety-three  years  of  age,  still  possesses  the  vig- 
orous mind  characteristic  of  him  in  younger  days.  He  has  been  a  con- 
stant reader  of  history,  and  with  his  retentive  memory  is  able  at  present 
to  convey  to  others  what  he  has  read.  He  is  still  ambitious  and  walks  to 
and  from  his  farm  a  half  mile  away.  His  motto  has  always  been:  "It  is 
better  for  a  man  to  wear  out  than  to  rust  out." 

Mr.  Stuart  died  in  July,  1901,  since  the  above  was  written. 


Evergene  B.  Smith. 


Evergene  B.  Smith,  the  youngest  child  of  Erastus  and  Julia  A.  Smith, 
was  born  September  17,  1853,  about  one  and  a  half  miles  northeast  of  New 
WoodHtock,  his  father  at  that  time  living  on  the  old  Hubbard  place. 

After  living  on  several  farms  near  New  Woodstock,  his  parents  moved 
into  the  village  in  1864,  and  during  their  lifetime  Evergene's  home,  while 
residing  in  his  native  state,  was  with  them. 

His  district  school  days  were  spent  mostly  in  the  schoolhouse  on  what 
is  now  known  as  McKinley  street;  a  few  terms  at  the  Brownson  Academy, 


James  Stuart 
Peck  Residence 


E.  B.  Smith,  Iowa 


HISTORY  OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  1 1 1 

'  -d  one  at  the  present  union  school  building.  During  the  years  1869-1870, 
he  attended  Cazenovia  Seminary,  and  was  graduated  in  the  commercial 
course  from  that  institution.  When  he  was  fourteen  years  old,  he  united 
with  the  First  Baptist  church  of  Cazenovia  and  still  maintains  his  mem- 
bership in  that  denomination. 

From  1871  to  1873,  he  clerked  for  T.  F.  Huntley.  In  the  spring  of 
1873  he  went  to  Waterloo,  Iowa,  where  he  has  since  resided  with  the  ex- 
ception of  about  three  years  prior  to  1880,  when  he  was  back  in  his  native 
town  and  again  with  T.  F.  Huntley.  For  the  past  twenty-one  years  he 
has  been  in  the  wholesale  grocery  line  in  Waterloo,  Iowa.  In  1890,  with 
Messrs.  Lichty  &  Hillman,  they  organized  the  Smith,  Lichty  &  Hillman  Co., 
wholesale  grocers,  and  Mr.  Smith  being  chosen  president  of  the  company, 
has  filled  that  office  continuously  up  to  the  present,  all  the  while  being  one 
of  the  active  managers  of  this  very  successful  business. 

On  June  28,  1882,  he  married  Agnes  W.  Williams,  of  Waterloo.  Their 
children  are  Roger,  aged  17,  Paul  15,  Margaret  13,  Lawrence  n,  and 
Merritt  3. 

At  present  Mr.  Smith  is  a  member  of  the  City  Council  from  the  third 
ward,  the  largest  in  Waterloo,  having  some  5,000  people  out  of  a  popula- 
tion of  15,000  in  the  city.  Mr.  Smith  also  holds  in  various  institutions 
other  positions  of  trust  and  honor. 


Worlocfc. 


The  Worlocks  trace  their  ancestry  back  to  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots. 
Robert  Worlock,  because  of  unwillingness  to  wed  the  girl  of  his  father's 
choice,  left  Scotland,  coming  to  this  country  by  way  of  Quebec,  and 
eventually  arriving  at  Syracuse.  He  had  a  good  education,  and  became  a 
civil  engineer.  Many  of  his  early  surveys  in  Ouondaga  county  are  on  re- 
cord. He  married  Mary  Aldrich,  of  Gloucester,  R.  I.,  and  died  in  Fabius, 
N.  Y.,  in  1810.  They  had  four  sons  and  two  daughters.  Two  of  the  sons, 
Stephen  and  Lyman,  settled  at  Bingley  Mills.  Stephen  married  Lucy 
Barber,  of  Fenner.  By  this  marriage  three  sons,  Thomas,  Elijah,  and 
Cyrus  were  born.  Cyrus  is  still  living.  Thomas  and  Elijah  came  here 
from  Bingley  Mills  in  1854,  having  bought  the  tannery  at  Floodport  of 
John  C.  Loomis.  They  successfully  conducted  this  business  nine  years. 

In  1865,  a  Glove  Company  was  formed,  consisting  of  Erastus  Abbott, 
J.  L.  Hatch,  J.  I/.  Savage,  Thomas  and  Elijah  B.  Worlock.  The  tannery 
became  company  property  and  the  glove  factory  was  in  the  building  now 
owned  by  M.  R.  Burdick.  Over  twenty  hands  were  employed.  Thomas 


H2  HISTORY   OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

Worlock  attended  to  buying  stock  and  keeping  the  books,  and  J.  L. 
Savage  was  manager  of  the  manufacturing  department. 

Extensive  repairs  were  made  on  the  dam  at  Flood  port,  and  a  flourish- 
ing business  was  done  until  the  death  of  Thomas  Worlock  in  1872,  when 
the  company  dissolved.  E.  B.  Worlock's  health  had  become  poor  some 
years  before,  and  his  share  in  the  glove  concern  was  drawn  out  previous 
to  his  brother's  death. 

In  addition  to  the  glove  business,  Thomas  Worlock  was  a  partner  of 
John  H.  Fuller  and  R.  W.  Richmond  in  buying  real  estate.  He  married  in 
1863,  C.  Alice  Gardner,  daughter  of  Dwight  Gardner  of  Sheds  Corners. 
They  had  one  daughter,  Inez  G.,  who  died  in  1890. 


Boyd. 


In  1896,  Charles  H.  Boyd  built  a  flour  and  feed  store  on  the  site  pur- 
chased of  W.  F.  Sims,  who  commenced  business  there  in  1894,  and  was 
burned  out  in  1896.  Mr.  Boyd  was  born  in  Fayetteville,  his  parents  com- 
ing to  New  Woodstock  in  1860,  when  he  was  only  six  weeks  old.  His 
father,  Charles  Boyd,  Sr.,  was  employed  by  S.  E.  Morse  in  his  wagon  shop 
until  Mr.  Morse's  death  in  1899.  Since  that  time  Mr.  Boyd  has  worked  for 
himself  at  general  repairing,  making  a  period  of  over  forty  years  at  work 
in  the  same  shop. 

The  education  of  C.  H.  Boyd  is  practical;  acquired  in  the  New  Wood- 
stock district  school  and  the  select  school  taught  by  Rev.  and  Mrs.  Brown- 
son.  When  Mr.  Boyd  was  thirteen  years  old  he  became  clerk  for  T.  F. 
Huntley.  Later  he  was  foreman  of  Dr.  N.  P.  Warner's  lumber  business. 
In  1878,  he  was  in  John  Wanamaker's  Chestnut  Street  store  in  Philadel- 
phia. He  worked  a  few  months  in  the  Cortland  Wagon  Works.  With 
the  exception  of  less  than  a  year  spent  in  these  two  places,  his  home  has 
been  in  New  Woodstock.  Six  years  were  spent  in  the  cheese  factory,  and 
thirteen  years  in  M.  C.  Wood's  grist  and  saw  mill,  making  the  general  re- 
pairs on  both  mills  and  doing  all  the  sawing.  In  1894  he  was  constable 
and  collector  for  the  town  of  Cazenovia,  holding  the  office  of  constable  un- 
til 1897.  He  was  truaut  officer  for  the  New  Woodstock  school  at  the  same 
time.  He  is  a  member  of  the  local  lodge  K.  O.  T.  M.  In  1890  he  married 
Hattie  Williams  of  Nelson.  Their  daughter  Lulu  is  nine  years  old. 

Mr.  Boyd  carries  on  a  large  feed  and  flour  business,  and  it  is  con- 
veniently located  near  the  depot,  having  track  connections  with  the  rail- 
road. He  also  owns  the  land  where  the  sawmill  stands,  and  has  a  joint 
interest  in  the  mill  with  his  two  brothers,  Louis  and  Ora  Boyd.  His 
brother  Louis  received  most  of  his  education  in  the  Rome  Deaf  Mute  In- 


Photo  by  Mrs.  C.  H.  Boyd 


C.  H.  Boyd 
and 
Store 


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stitute.  For  several  years  he  has  successfully  conducted  a  barber's  shop 
and  a  machine  shop  for  carpenter  work.  In  1898  he  married  Jessie  Beek- 
man  of  Phoenix.  They  have  one  son. 

The  third  brother,  Ora,  is  employed  by  his  brother,  Charles,    and  pos- 
sesses the  family  mechanical  ability.     He  resides  with  his  parents. 

Drake. 


Alfred  Leonard  Drake  was  born  in  Georgetown,  N.  Y.,  August  12, 
1816.  His  parents  were  among  the  early  settlers  of  the  town,  moving 
there  from  Connecticut  about  1803.  His  mother  was  Aurilla  Olmsted,  a 
sister  of  Deacon  Jonathan  Olmsted,  who  settled  in  Hamilton,  N.  Y.,  and 
who  was  a  member  of  the  legislature,  a  constituent  member  of  the  New 
York  State  Missionary  Convention,  one  of  the  founders  of  the  Education 
Society,  and  who,  in  connection  with  Samuel  Payne,  another  member  of 
the  family,  contributed  the  land  upon  which  the  buildings  of  Colgate 
University  are  located. 

Mr.  Drake  was  the  youugest  of  a  large  family,  none  of  whom  are  now 
living,  except  one  sister,  Mrs.  Sophia  Drake  Niles,  of  Cazenovia,  N.  Y., 
who  is  still  active,  bright  and  interesting  at  the  age  of  ninety-three.  In 
1843,  Mr.  Drake  married  Louisa  Putnam  Brown,  a  native  of  Topsham 
Orange  County,  Vt.  They  had  two  daughters.  In  1861,  he  removed  with 
his  family  to  New  Woodstock,  purchasing  of  DeLoss  Greenman  a  part  of 
the  Savage  farm  at  Floodport,  at  which  place  he  remained  until  his  death 
in  1872,  when  only  fifty-five.  Mr.  Drake  was  an  industrious,  quiet,  home- 
loving  man,  devotedly  attached  to  his  family  and  friends,  a  man  whom 
little  children  loved,  and  there  are  still  many  who,  through  all  the  years, 
have  cherished  the  memory  of  their  genial,  affectionate  "Uncle  Alfred." 

Soon  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Drake  the  Elmira,  Cortland  &  Northern, 
now  the  Lehigh  Valley  Railroad,  was  built,  passing  through  the  farm. 
Joseph  Coley  purchased  the  part  east  of  what  is  known  as  "Drake  Cut," 
Mrs.  Drake  retaining  the  remaining  ten  acres  and  the  buildings  in  Flood- 
port.  Julius  H.  Clark,  who  married  the  youngest  daughter,  Luella  A., 
has  carried  on  the  farm  for  the  past  two  years,  Mrs.  Drake  dying  there  in 
August,  1901,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two.  She  was  of  Puritan  ancestry,  a 
descendant  of  the  New  England  Emersous  and  Hales,  and  possessed  the 
indomitable  spirit  of  her  forefathers.  She  was  a  practical,  energetic 
woman,  especially  skillful  with  the  needle.  She,  too,  was  the  youngest  of 
a  large  family,  all  of  whom  have  passed  away. 

The  oldest  daughter,  Mary  Anzolette,*  now  of  Cortland,  N.  Y.,  mar- 
ried Grove  H.  Ellsworth  of  Auburn,  N.  Y.,  who  died  in  1883.  Their  child- 


•Publisher's  note:    One  of  the  writers  of  this  history;   a  graduate  of  Cazenovia  Sem- 
inary, where  she  won  prizes  in  German,  French,  Mathematics  and  for  Indies'  Essay. 


HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK. 


ren  were  Jessamine  A.,  now  a  teacher  in  Cortland,  and  Raymond  Drake 
Ellsworth,  who  died  in  New  Woodstock  in  October,  1889,  when  nearly 
thirteen  years  of  age,  and  is  buried  beside  his  grandparents  in  the  village 
cemetery.  A  loved  and  loving  child,  he  is  missed  and  mourned. 


Clark. 


Julius  H.  Clark  was  born  in  South  Otselic,  Chenango  county,  N.  Y., 
in  1836,  remaining  in  that  place  until  twenty  years  of  age,  when  he  went 
to  Utica,  N.  Y.,  enlisting  from  that  city  in  September,  1861,  as  a  private  in 
the  8ist  Regiment,  N.  Y.  Volunteers.  He  was  soon  made  Duty  Sergeant, 
and,  at  the  battle  of  Fair  Oaks,  was  promoted  to  First  Sergeant.  In  1862, 
Mr.  Clark  returned  to  Utica  as  a  recruiting  officer,  whose  duty  was  also  to 
look  up  deserters.  He  has  many  interesting  reminiscences  to  relate  of 
adventures  at  that  time  with  "Bounty  Jumpers"  and  deserters,  at  one 
time  having  an  encounter  with  the  notorious  Loomis  gang. 

Returning  to  army  life  in  the  winter  of  1863,  he  served  till  January  9, 
1864  under  General  Butler,  who  had  his  headquarters  at  City  Point,  Va. 
Mr.  Clark  was  promoted  to  First  Lieutenant,  January  18,  1863,  and  was 
wounded  in  November,  1864  at  Bermuda  Hundred,  remaining  in  hospital 
Chesapeake,  Fortress  Monroe,  for  two  months. 

After  having  served  more  than  his  term  of  enlistment,  he  worked  in 
the  machine  shop  of  Wood,  Taber  &  Morse,  at  Eaton,  N.  Y.,  till  March, 
1865,  when  he  re-enlisted  in  Hancock  Corps,  U.  8.  Veterans  as  private ; 
was  again  made  Duty  Sergeant.  In  April,  1865,  General  Hancock  issued 
an  order  for  two  sergeants  from  each  company  to  report  to  an  examining 
board  for  examination  for  a  commission  from  the  secretary  of  war.  Mr. 
Clark  received  a  commission  as  second  lieutenant.  In  the  spring  of  1865, 
he  was  appointed  acting  quartermaster  for  the  regiment,  holding  that 
position  until  May  20,  1866,  when  the  regiment  was  discharged.  Mr. 
Clark  served  four  and  a  half  years  in  the  army.  His  regiment  was  on  duty 
at  the  hanging  of  J.  H.  Surratt. 

May  23,  1866,  Mr.  Clark  was  married  in  Philadelphia  to  Miss  Esther 
Nixon,  of  that  city.  Their  home  was  for  the  most  part  in  New  York  city 
and  Hoboken  until  1875.  In  1880  Mr.  Clark  removed  with  his  family  to 
New  Woodstock,  buying  a  place  in  Floodport.  Mrs.  Clark  died  in  1882". 
They  had  nine  children,  all  of  whom  are  living  but  one  little  girl  who  died 
in  infancy  :  Edward  Livingston,  of  Syracuse;  Julius  Hitchcock,  of  Manlius, 
.  Y.;  Harry  Nixon,  of  Cazenovia;  John  Vesona  and  William  Wait,  of 
Waterbury,  Conn.;  Charles  Andrede,  of  Manlius,  N.  Y.;  James  Delamere, 
of  Syracuse,  and  Mary  Estelle,  of  Lebanon,  N.  Y. 


Donald  Parker,  M.D. 
W.  S.  Huntley 


Ex-Postmaster  F.  L.  Cunningham 
N.  V.  Freeborn 


HISTORY  OF   NEW    WOODSTOCK.  115 

Mr.  Clark  married  for  his  second  wife,  Luella  A.,  youngest  daughter 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alfred  I/.  Drake,  and  they  resided  in  the  Drake  home- 
stead in  Floodport. 

Huntley. 


Oliver  Denison  Huntley,  sou  of  Ezra  and  Eunice  [Holmes]  Huntley, 
was  born  in  Stonington,  Conn.,  July  3,  1802.  At  the  death  of  his  father 
ten  years  later,  he  entered  a  store  in  Norwich,  Conn.,  as  clerk,  and  at  the 
age  of  twenty-three  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Joshua  and  Olive  [Lathrop] 
Stark,  of  Bozrah,  Conn.  During  his  residence  in  this  town  his  two  oldest 
sons  were  born;  William  W.,  of  New  Woodstock,  and  the  late  Dr.  Huntley, 
of  Trinidad,  Col. 

In  1830  the  family  moved  to  New  York,  settling  in  the  town  of  Caiia- 
joharie.  In  this  vicinity  he  remained  thirty  years,  during  which  time  his 
first  wife  died.  The  following  year  he  married  her  youngest  sister,  Hannah 
Randall  Stark,  who  survived  him  many  years.  In  the  spring  of  1862  he 
removed  to  New  Woodstock,  where  in  company  with  his  son,  William,  he 
kept  a  store,  until  his  death,  August  13,  1866. 

He  was  the  father  of  twelve  children,  six  sons  and  six  daughters.  Two 
of  his  sons  served  their  country  during  the  Civil  war,  one  of  them  giving 
up  his  life  on  the  battle  field  of  Pleasant  Hill. 

After  the  death  of  O.  D.  Huntley  the  mercantile  business  passed  into 
the  hands  of  his  son,  T.  F.  Huntley.  A  year  later,  William  W.,  became  a 
partner,  who  sold  back  his  interest  three  years  afterward.  T.  F.  Huntley 
conducted  it  alone  a  few  years  when  he  sold  to  James  Reed,  and  moved  to 
Syracuse  where  he  died. 

William  W.  Huntley  and  Mrs.  Hattte  Freeborn  are  the  only  ones  of 
the  family  of  sons  and  daughters  remaining  here  who  came  in  1862. 

William  S.  Huntley,  oldest  child  of  William  W.  and  Maria  [Buckley] 
Huntley,  was  born  in  1875.  He  was  educated  in  the  New  Woodstock 
schools.  Aside  from  a  few  months  spent  in  Syracuse,  he  has  always  lived 
in  New  Woodstock.  He  learned  the  tinner's  trade  of  H.  D.  Ryder,  from 
whom  he  bought  the  hardware  business  and  has  conducted  it  successfully 
since  January,  1899. 

On  May  i,  1901,  he  married  Florence,  daughter  of  Alpheus  and  Julia 
[deClercq]  Hendee,  and  lives  in  the  Dr.  N.  P.  Warner  house. 

His  brother  Charles  is  a  student  in  Cortland  Normal,  and  his  sister, 
Edna,  is  still  with  her  parents. 


Il6  HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


M.  R.  Burdick. 


One  of  the  business  men  of  New  Woodstock  is  M.  R.  Burdick,  who 
was  born  in  1852,  on  Richmond  Hill  in  the  town  of  Truxton.  His  parents, 
Edward  and  Elizabeth  [Richmond]  Burdick,  came  to  New  Woodstock  in 
1865,  living  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  Seymour  LaMunion.  In  his  early 
manhood,  Mr.  Burdick  made  farming  his  work,  and  when  twenty-three, 
began  buying  hides,  gradually  increasing  his  business,  until  it  now  in- 
cludes harnesses,  farming  implements  and  vehicles  of  all  kinds. 

In  1899  he  bought  the  old  "glove  factory,"  changing  the  lower  floor  to 
accommodate  his  business.  The  New  Woodstock  hall  occupies  the  second 
story  of  the  building.  Mr.  Burdick  continues  farming,  owning  a  part  of 
the  Harvey  Ellis  farm  on  the  Floodport  road.  In  1878  he  married  Allie, 
a  daughter  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Devolsen  Morse.  Mr.  Burdick  is  a  descend- 
ant of  Kenyon  Burdick,  one  of  DeRuyter's  earliest  pioneers. 

K   i   :i 

Smith. 


Dr.  A.  D.  Smith  was  born  sixty  years  ago,  1841,  on  a  farm  located  in 
the  southeast  corner  of  the  town  of  Cazenovia.  The  towns  of  DeRuyter 
and  Nelson  lie  contiguous  to  the  town  of  Cazenovia.  The  old  farm  con- 
tained land  in  the  two  former  towns,  and  was  made  very  productive  by  the 
skill  and  industry  of  his  father,  Willard  M.  Smith,  who  was  a  successful 
farmer.  Lucinda  Harrington  Smith,  the  wife  and  mother,  was  a  superior 
helpmeet.  It  was  about  the  year  1836  that  the  Smiths  left  a  fine  farming 
country  and  friends  in  Herkimer  county  to  seek  and  build  a  fortune  with 
little  else  than  brain  and  brawn.  After  years  of  toil  and  frugal  living  they 
enjoyed  the  pleasure  of  prosperity  and  with  a  family  of  two  sons  and  one 
daughter  they  remained  on  the  farm  until  failing  health  compelled  their 
removal.  Father  and  mother  spent  their  last  years  with  the  doctor,  who 
was  only  too  glad  to  make  their  lives  comfortable  and  happy. 

At  the  age  of  nineteen  years,  he  who  is  now  a  physician  and  surgeon, 
went  to  school  and  taught  school  preparatory  to  getting  a  medical  educa- 
tion, until  he  was  twenty-four  years  of  age.  At  this  time,  he  began  the 
study  of  medicine  with  Drs.  Greenwood  and  Carpenter,  of  Erieville,  N.  Y. 
After  a  short  time,  he  went  to  Michigan  University,  at  Ann  Arbor,  then  to 
Columbia  College,  New  York  City.  Here  he  was  graduated  with  honor, 
Anno  Domini,  MDCCCLXTII,  Menses  Martii,  Die  Duodecimo. 

In  April  following  he  opened  an  office  in  Nelson  Flats,  N.  Y.  Having 
an  opportunity  to  purchase  the  good  will  of  Dr.  McLellan,  then  of  New 


Dr.  and  Mrs.  A.  D.  Smith 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Galen  D.  Smith 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  WOODSTOCK.  1 17. 

Woodstock,  N.  Y.,  he  did  so  and  came  in  November  of  that  year,  where 
he  has  remained  all  but  three  years.  In  1877-8-9  he  lived  in  the  village  of 
Cazenovia  where  he  taught  Anatomy,  Physiology  and  Hygine,  inCazenovia 
Seminary  and  practiced  his  profession  when  not  otherwise  engaged.  Not 
being  able  to  dispose  of  his  property  in  New  Woodstock,  and  with  impair- 
ed health,  he  returned  fo  his  old  field,  where  he  expects  to  remain,  till 
"the  lease  of  life  expires."  He  has  been  burdened,  except  the  last  eight 
years,  with  that  most  uncompromising  nervous  disease,  Asthma,  which 
has  been  a  "holy  terror,"  and  a  handicap  of  the  best  years  of  his  life,  yet 
the  doctor  is  better  at  sixty  than  at  fifty  years  of  age,  and  has  a  fair  pros- 
pect of  smoothing  the  pathway  of  bis  many  friends  and  patrons  that  leads 
to  that  bourne  from  which  no  traveler  returns.  And  yet,  the  equinox, 
where  the  sun  of  life  crosses  the  equator  of  our  existence,  may  already  be 
in  sight,  as  viewed  from  the  heights  on  the  other  shore.  Having  ascer- 
tained a  panacea  for  the  bane  of  his  life  gives  him  hope  that  he  is  immune 
from  all  those  diseases  that  are  allied  or  follow  in  the  wake  of  Asthma. 
The  price  of  its  return,  if  in  the  power  of  man  for  speculative  purposes 
would  meet  with  as  much  of  a  rebuff  as  did  Satan  when  he  offered  the 
Master  the  whole  world  to  fall  down  and  worship  him.  Such  is  the 
magnitude  of  the  coutemptuousuess  of  always  being  choked;  who  could 
rise  very  far  above  the  common  plane  of  life  with  such  a  mill  stone  about 
his  neck. 

The  doctor  married  Miss  Martha  M.  Smith,  of  New  Woodstock,  N.  Y., 
in  the  year  1859,  and  the  year  1871  brought  to  them  a  son,  T.  G.  Smith, 
who  married  Mrs.  Margaret  Cook,  of  Boston,  Mass.  They  now  reside  in 
the  city  of  Los  Angeles,  Cal.  The  wife,  who  might  with  propriety  be  cal- 
led a  business  woman,  is  a  real  estate  dealer,  and  he  is  the  collector  for 
the  Electric  Light  company  of  the  city,  a  pleasant  and  profitable  employ- 
ment. He  is  an  only  child,  and  received  his  education  in  Cazenovia  Sem- 
inary. He  was  eight  years  with  Pettingill  and  Andrews,  a  wholesale 
house  for  electric  supplies  in  the  City  of  Boston. 

Dr.  Smith  has  practiced  his  profession  nearly  thirty-five  years,  and  in- 
tends to  die  in  the  harness.  Financially  he  is  not  a  great  success;  re- 
ligiously, he  is  a  Unitarian;  politically,  he  is  an  Abraham  Lincoln  devotee, 
and  McKiuley  Republican.  He  heartily  endorses  the  lamented  Lincoln's 
motto,  "Malice  toward  none,  charity  for  all." 


Newell  V.  Freeborn. 


Newell  Van  Renssalaer  Freeborn,  of  the  firm  of  Maynard  &  Freeborn, 
Erieville,  N.  Y.,  is  the  son  of  Wm.  H.  Freeborn,  and  was  born  in  New 
Woodstock,  February  18,  1876. 


H8  HISTORY  OF  NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

When  quite  young  he  developed  a  taste  for  the  mercantile  business 
and  secured  a  position  as  clerk  in  the  employ  of  C.  A.  Fox,  where  he 
worked  for  one  year.  Wishing  to  further  his  education,  he  took  a  course 
of  study  at  the  Rochester  Business  University,  from  which  he  graduated  in 

1894. 

After  graduation,  he  entered  the  employ  of  F.  E.  Richardson,  a  grocer 
of  Cazenovia,  N.  Y.  Later  he  obtained  a  more  lucrative  position  at  Osceola, 
N.  Y.,  where  he  was  similarly  employed  in  the  store  of  J.  A.  Cowles.  From 
there  he  went  to  Erieville  and  became  manager  of  the  general  store  of  Hon. 
C.  E.  Maynard.  After  two  years  of  efficient  service,  he  became  a  partner. 

In  October,  1900,  he  was  married  to  Miss  Jennie  Seaver,  of  Erieville, 
N.  Y. 


Fox. 


Charles  A.  Fox,  who  came  to  New  Woodstock  in  1877  as  clerk  in  T.  F. 
Huntley's  store,  was  born  in  DeRuyter  in  1844,  in  the  house  that  was  the 
birthplace  of  the  present  secretary  of  the  treasury  Lyman  J.  Gage,  and  of 
A.  G.  Richmond.  His  parents  were  Hubbard  and  Maria  Finch  Fox.  His 
father  was  a  harness  maker  and  dealer  until  1857  when  he  began  preach- 
ing and  joined  the  Oneida  conference.  He  held  several  pastorates,  New 
Woodstock  among  the  number.  He  died  in  1893. 

Reuben  L.,  an  older  brother  of  Charles,  has  held  various  responsible 
offices  in  the  New  York  state  Republican  party.  The  only  sister,  Nettie, 
married  the  late  T.  F.  Huntley,  and  now  resides  at  Syracuse,  her  two 
daughters  living  with  her.  Her  eldest  daughter,  Florence,  a  remarkably 
bright  young  lady,  died  of  consumption  some  years  ago.  The  youngest 
brother,  Adett,  spends  part  of  his  time  here  in  his  brother's  family. 

C.  A.  Fox  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  and  at  Cazenovia 
Seminary.  In  1862,  he  married  Helen,  daughter  of  Alanson  Banks,  of 
Preble,  and  was  a  farmer  there  for  fifteen  years  before  coming  to  New 
Woodstock.  In  1887  he  commenced  business  as  a  merchant,  purchasing 
what  was  once  the  old  conference  "  haus  "  and  academj',  which  was  moved 
to  its  present  site  and  fitted  up  for  a  store  in  1874.  He  carried  on  a 
successful  business  until  the  spring  of  1901,  and  then  sold  out  his  mercan- 
tile interest  to  Cummings  &  Stoddard. 

Mr.  Fox  has  held  several  town  offices,  is  a  charter  member  of  the  A.  O. 
U.  W.,  and  has  been  for  many  years  an^efficieut  member  of  the  New  Wood- 
stock Methodist  church.  The  family  were  originally  from  Connecticut, 
coming  first  to  Sherburne,  N.  Y.,  then  moving  to  Pitcher,  where  they 
lived  on  the  old  Fox  farm.  [Since  the  above  sketch  was  written,  Mr,  Fox 
has  been  elected  Supervisor  of  the  town  of  Cazenovia.  ] 


H.  K.  Stoddard 


Merchants 


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Photo  by  W.  S.  Huntley 

C.  A.  Fox's  Store  and  Residence 


A.  N.  Wheelock 
Edson  Wheelock  Prof.  O.  C.  Kellogg 


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Jaquith. 


The  ancestors  of  the  Jaquith  family  settled  in  Connecticut.  Although 
the  descendants  of  that  name  are  numerous,  those  residing  in  Earlville 
and  New  Berlin  are  the  only  relatives  of  the  New  Woodstock  Jaquiths  in 
New  York  state. 

Perry  Jaquith  was  born  in  North  Otselic  and  came  here  nineteen  years 
ago  with  his  wife,  one  son  and  two  daughters.  He  kept  a  general  mer- 
chandise store  in  the  old  glove  factory,  afterward  moving  into  the  Esq. 
Lathrop  store  which  was  burned  in  1890.  Soon  after,  he  bought  the  Harvey 
Morris  store,  carrying  on  business  there  until  1898,  when  he  was  succeeded 
by  his  sou,  Willard  E.  Jaquith,  and  his  son-in-law,  Harry  I.  Miller. 

W.  E.  Jaquith  was  graduated  at  Cazenovia  in  '93.  He  was  associated 
with  Mr.  Wildman,  of  South  Otselic,  in  the  dry  goods  and  clothing  business 
for  three  years  prior  to  becoming  a  partner  of  the  present  firm.  In  1896 
he  married  Anna  Doremus,  of  Cazenovia. 

H.  I.  Miller  attended  Cazeuovia  Seminary  in  '92  and  '93.  In  1896  he 
married  Miss  Ada  Jaquith,  who  graduated  at  Cazenovia  Seminary  in  '92. 

Miss  Grace  Jaquith  resides  with  her  parents.  She  is  organist  at  the 
Baptist  church  and  is  possessed  of  fine  musical  ability.  She  has  taken 
lessons  of  the  late  Prof.  Henry  W.  Davis,  of  Syracuse,  A.  B.  Kingsley,  of 
Cortland,  and  has  attended  the  Ithaca  Conservatory  of  Music  one  and  one 
half  years. 


Albert  N,  Wheelock. 


Albert  N.  Wheelock  was  born  in  Lincklaen,  Chenango  Co.,  March  2, 
1837.  He  was  educated  at  the  old  DeRuyter  Seminary,  DeRuyter,  N.  Y. 
He  remained  in  DeRuyter  until  1876,  and  then,  after  a  residence  of  four 
years  in  Rhode  Island  Settlement,  came  to  New  Woodstock,  where  he  has 
since  resided. 

When  the  Civil  war  broke  out,  Mr.  Wheelock  enlisted  with  the  H4th 
regiment  of  New  York  volunteers.  He  was  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Fort 
Bisland,  taken  prisoner  at  Brashear  City  and  experienced  the  hardships 
of  the  Red  River  campaign  and  that  of  the  Shenandoah  Valley.  In  1863, 
he  was  detailed  to  the  commissary  department,  and  remained  in  the 
service  until  the  close  of  the  war. 

In  1867,  Mr.  Wheelock  married  Miss  Susan  R.  Healey,  of  Otselic.  The 
older  of  their  two  children,  H.  Edson  Wheelock,  who  was  a  telegrapher 


120  HISTORY  OF  NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

and  stenographer,  died  in  1892,  at  the  age  of  twenty-three.     The  younger, 
Effie  Adelia,  is  the  wife  of  Olin  C.  Kellogg. 

During  the  last  twenty-five  years  Mr.  Wheelock   has  been  actively  en- 
gaged as  a  dealer  in  eggs. 


Olin  C.  Kellogg. 

Olin  Clay  Kellogg  was  born  in  Spafford,  N.  Y.,  in  1870.  In  1872,  his 
parents  removed  to  Homer,  N.  Y.,  where  he  was  graduated  in  1887  from 
the  well  known  Homer  Academy  in  the  literary  and  scientific  course.  In 
1888,  he  completed  the  college  preparatory  course  at  the  same  institution. 
In  1892,  he  was  graduated  from  Syracuse  University  with  the  degree  of  A. 
B.  In  1893,  upan  examination,  he  was  awarded  the  degree  of  A.  M.,  and 
in  1894  in  like  manner,  he  received  the  degree  of  Ph.,  D.  He  has  made  a 
specialty  of  the  English  language  and  literature  together  with  oratorical 
and  dramatic  expression,  which  he  has  studied  in  New  York  and  Philadel- 
phia under  some  of  the  best  instructors  in  that  particular  department  of 
work,  and  has  made  extensive  researches  and  investigations  in  several  of 
the  largest  and  most  famous  libraries  of  the  United  States.  He  has  taught 
in  various  institutions  of  excellent  reputation  and  is  now  an  instructor  in 
Northwestern  University,  Evanston,  111. 

In  1894,  Dr.  Kellogg  married  Miss  Effie  A.  Wheelock,  the  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  A.  N.  Wheelock,  of  New  Woodstock,  N.  Y.,  where  he  fre- 
quently spends  the  greater  part  of  his  summer  vacation. 


Homer  Edson  Wheelock. 


Homer  Edson  Wheelock,  only  son  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Albert  N.  Whee- 
lock, was  born  in  L,incklaen,  March  i,  1869.  He  died  in  New  Woodstock, 
March  12,  1892,  aged  twenty-three  years. 

He  was  educated  at  Cazenovia  Seminary,  at  Eastman's  Business  Col- 
lege, Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y.,  and  at  Chaffee's  College  of  Phonography, 
Oswego,  N.  Y. 

Always  a  diligent  and  thorough  student,  he  completed  the  compre- 
hensive course  at  Eastman's  Business  College  in  the  unusually  short 
period  of  eleven  weeks,  leading  his  class  with  the  high  average  of  96 
credits. 

After  giving  promise  of  marked  executive  ability,  he  was  summoned 
to  another  realm,  and  a  bright  and  ambitious  career  came  to  an  untimely 
end.  His  life,  although  short,  was  not  essentially  incomplete.  "There 
is  a  world  elsewhere." 


Photo  by  1.  L.  R.  Minor 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  C.  A.  Buckingham 

Lulu  Rena  Roy 

Leon  Arthur 

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HISTORY   OF  NEW    WOODSTOCK.  121 


Buckingham. 


C.  A.  Buckingham  has  been  the  proprietor  of  the  New  Woodstock 
Cheese  Factory  since  1885,  and  is  also  the  manager  of  the  Perryville,  Caze- 
novia  and  New  Woodstock  milk  stations.  The  combined  average  output 
is  five  hundred  fifty  cans  of  milk  per  day.  A  portion  of  the  milk  from  the 
three  hundred  cans  received  at  the  factory  is  made  into  cheese  and  butter. 
The  balance  with  the  two  hundred  fifty  cans  received  at  the  different  sta- 
tions is  sent  to  New  York. 

The  number  of  cans  controlled  by  Mr.  Buckingham  is  2500.  Eleven 
families  are  supported  by  the  work  given  the  employees  in  handling  milk. 
The  pay  roll  for  the  hired  help  averages  $500  per  month.  The  total 
amount  received  annually  in  New  Woodstock  for  milk  is  $100,000. 

Mr.  Buckingham  is  a  native  of  Otselic,  N.  Y.  His  paternal  grand- 
father was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Georgetown,  N.  Y. 

Mr.  Buckingham's  popularity  is  evident.  Though  a  Democrat  and 
not  an  office  seeker,  he  has  twice  been  elected  supervisor  of  the  town  of 
Cazenovia,  which  is  strongly  Republican.  He  belongs  to  the  DeRuyter 
Lodge  of  Masons,  and  is  one  of  six  of  that  order  in  New  Woodstock.  He 
married  in  1882,  Maude  L.  Perkins,  of  South  Otselic.  They  have  four 
sons  and  two  daughters. 


E.  E.  Cummings. 


Ervin  E.  Cummings  was  born  August  13,  1875,  at  Preble,  Cortland  Co., 
N.  Y.  He  received  a  common  school  education  at  Tully  and  Homer,  and 
moved  to  New  Woodstock  from  Tully,  N.  Y.  Since  1890  he  has  been  in 
the  employ  of  his  uncle,  C.  A.  Fox,  except  during  the  year  1893,  when  he 
was  employed  by  Westcott  &  Stenton  of  Truxton,  N.  Y.,  in  a  general 
store.  In  April,  1901,  Mr.  Cummings  commenced  business  in  C.  A.  Fox's 
store  as  a  general  merchant. 

Mr.  Cummings  married  Mary  T.  Byer,  January  23,  1895,  and  they  have 
one  daughter.  He  was  appointed  postmaster  June  18,  1898,  joined  the 
Maccabees  and  was  elected  Record-Keeper,  January  27,  1896,  and  served 
two  years.  He  was  then  elected  commander  and  held  this  office  for  two 
years.  On  October  18,  1899,  was  organized  the  Owahgena  Division  Uni- 
form Rank  of  the  K.  O.  T.  M.,  and  he  was  elected  captain,  which  position 
he  now  holds. 


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Stoddard. 

H.  K.  Stoddard  was  a  native  of  the  town  of  Otselic,  Chenango  County, 
being  born  there  in  1875.  His  parents  moving  here  in  1888,  however,  has 
made  him  more  or  less  associated  with  New  Woodstock  since  that  time. 
In  1891  he  left  the  New  Woodstock  school  to  engage  as  a  district  school- 
teacher for  a  year;  subsequently  attending  school  at  Cazenovia  Seminary 
and  Cortland  Normal  school. 

Since  leaving  Cortland  Normal,  he  has  taught  three  years  at  North 
Pitcher,  N.  Y.  Graded  School,  and  until  April,  1901,  as  principal  of  the 
New  Woodstock  village  school.  He  resigned  that  position  to  engage  in 
the  mercantile  business  as  successor  to  C.  A.  Fox,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Cummings  &  Stoddard. 

Mr.  Stoddard  is  very  fond  of  out-door  sports,  his  favorite  pastime   be- 
ing hunting  and  fishing.     When  asked  whose  writings  he  most  enjoyed,  he 
replied,  "  The  sort  that  most  pleases  me."     He  is,  however,  very  fond   of 
Whittier's  poems.     In  politics  he  is  an  ardent  Democrat. 
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Donald  Parker,  M.  D. 


Donald  Parker,  M.  D.,  born  at  Stamford,  Ont.,  Canada,  April  29,  1874, 
was  the  seventh  son  of  William  and  Jane  Parker.  He  lived  on  the  old 
homestead  until  the  death  of  his  father  in  1891,  his  mother  having  died 
ten  years  before. 

When  twelve  years  old,  owing  to  his  father's  feebleness  he  was  com- 
pelled to  work  on  the  farm.  In  1891,  guided  somewhatby  theoldadage 
of  the  "  seventh  son  "  and  by  a  natural  inclination  in  that  direction  he 
began  at  the  district  school  to  lay  the  foundation  of  a  medical  education. 
In  1892  he  entered  Niagara  Falls  South  High  School,  completing  its  four 
years  course  in  three  years.  In  1895  he  began  the  study  of  medicine  in  the 
University  of  Buffalo,  and  after  taking  the  three  years  course,  graduated 
in  the  spring  of  '98,  at  the  age  of  twenty-three,  with  the  degree  of  M.  D., 
and  from  the  state  Board  of  Medicine  in  the  following  May.  While  in 
college  in  1895,  the  Omega  Upsilon  Phi  Medical  fraternity,  of  which  he  is 
a  member,  was  organized  with  -forty  members.  There  are  now  over  four 
hundred  members. 

In  August,  '98,  he  began  the  practice  of  medicine  in  New  Woodstock, 
where  he  still  resides,  becoming  an  able  physician  from  a  poor  lad  by  un- 
tiring energy  and  love  for  the  cause.  Dr.  Parker  is  one  of  the  two  state 
surgeons  for  the  K.  O.  T.  M.  belonging  to  that  order  and  the  Uniform 
Rank  in  New  Woodstock. 

Dr.  Parker  married  in  1899  Miss  Anna  L.  Byer  youngest  daughter  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Charles  Byer. 


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Rev.  Stephen  S.  Pratt. 


Stephen  S.  Pratt  was  born  at  Homer,  N.  Y.,  October  23,  1869.  His 
early  days  were  spent  on  his  father's  farm.  At  the  age  of  sixteen,  he  en- 
tered Homer  Academy.  Later,  he  attended  Cazenovia  Seminary,  a  college 
in  New  York  City,  and  Syracuse  University.  He  was  called  to  the  min- 
istry of  the  Methodist  church,  and  began  preaching  in  1895  at  Eaton,  N. 
Y.,  where  he  remained  three  years.  From  there  he  came  to  New  Wood- 
stock, where  he  is  now  pastor  of  the  Methodist  church. 


Eugene  Emmett  Manning. 


Eugene  Emmett  Manning  was  born  in  Broadalbin,  Fulton  Co.,  N.  Y., 
Aprils,  1857.  He  was  educated  at  Colgate  University,  Hamilton,  N.  Y., 
leaving  that  institution  in  1887.  He  was  ordained  at  Hagadorn's  Mills, 
N.  Y.,  on  May  29,  1888. 

Mr.  Manning's  pastorates  have  been  as  follows:  November  27,  1887  to 
April  I,  1891,  at  Hagadorn's  Mills,  N.  Y.  From  April  I,  1891  to  May  I, 
1892,  'at  Schuylerville,  N.  Y.  From  May  to  November,  1892.  Sunday 
school  missionary  in  Saratoga  county.  From  November  i,  1892  to  October 
6,  1895,  was  pastoral  Corinth,  N.  Y.  From  that  date  to  October  12,  1899, 
he  was  at  Warrensburg,  N.  Y.  Since  October  12,  1899,  he  has  been  pastor 
of  the  First  Baptist  church  at  New  Woodstock. 


Buell. 


Philander  S.  Buell  was  born  in  the  town  of  Truxton  in  1850.  He  was 
the  oldest  son  of  Loren  and  Harriet  Keeney  Buell.  His  father  dying 
when  he  was  a  young  boy,  his  mother  came  to  New  Woodstock  and 
Philander  attended  the  select  school  here  and  Cazenovia  Seminary.  At 
the  age  of  twenty -one  he  married  Ella  Twogood,  bought  his  brother's  in- 
terest in  the  home  farm  at  Truxton  and  lived  there  several  years.  Reverses 
came  and  the  farm  was  sold  to  Mr.  Buell's  half  brother,  Mason  K.  Blan- 
chard.  After  a  few  years,  Mr.  Buell  purchased  that  part  of  E.  L.  Buell's 
farm  known  as  the  Ebenezer  Corbin  place.  He  lived  there  twenty-one 
years,  and  was  a  successful,  practical  farmer. 


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HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


He  belonged  to  the  New  Woodstock  Grange,  was  a  loyal  Prohibitionist, 
and  having  united  with  the  Baptist  church  in  Truxton,  he  transferred  his 
membership  to  the  New  Woodstock  Baptist  church,  serving  faithfully  as 
treasurer  for  nine  years,  during  which  time  over  ten  thousand  dollars 
passed  through  his  hands. 

•    Mr.  Buell  died  January  2,  1901,  after  a  brief  illness.    His  wife  and  only 
daughter,  Gertrude  E.  Buell,  survive  him. 


Gardner. 

William  H.  Gardner  purchased  in  1883  the  dwelling  and  mill  known 
as  the  Wightman  property,  formerly  the  old  wool  carding  factory.  He  re- 
mained here  nine  years,  then  sold  to  his  cousin,  K.  E.  Gardner,  removing 
with  his  family  to  the  vicinity  of  Delphi,  where  his  four  sons  carry  on  an 
extensive  business  manufacturing  cheese  boxes. 

K.  E.  Gardner  was  born  in  DeRuyter.  His  parents  moved  to  Pennsylva- 
nia when  he  was  two  years  old, where  he  remained  until  he  was  sixteen.  At 
that  time  he  went  to  Kansas  and  Nebraska.  After  two  years  he  returned 
east  in  company  with  an  older  brother,  making  the  journey  overland  in  a 
prairie  schooner,  the  trip  taking  nine  weeks.  His  home  was  in  Delphi, 
from  that  time  until  he  came  to  New  Woodstock,  except  two  years  in 
Bingley,  where  he  had  charge  of  Atkinson's  mill,  and  two  years  in  De- 
Ruyter. 

Mr.  Gardner's  first  wife  was  Ann  Howe,  who  died  of  consumption  in 
December,  1897.  His  daughter,  Aurelia,  died  in  October,  1898;  the  older 
daughter,  Myra,  in  May  1899.  In  the  fall  of  1899  he  married  Mrs.  Sarah 
Maxson,  who  had  been  the  New  Woodstock  milliner  for  several  years. 

In  1895,  three  years  after  purchasing  the  property,  Mr.  Gardner's  mill 
and  house  were  burned.  He  soon  rebuilt  the  mill,  and  in  July  1897,  owing 
to  the  frequent  heavy  rains,  the  dam  was  washed  away.  This  was  replaced 
and  in  1898  Mr.  Gardner's  mill  was  again  burned  and  again  rebuilt.  He 
carries  on  an  extensive  business  in  grinding  feed,  also  making  a  specialty 
of  buckwheat  flour,  doing  custom  work  for  farmers  within  a  radius  of 
fifteen  miles.  Mr.  Gardner  has  the  most  modern  machinery,  and  in  addi- 
tion to  his  grist  mill  has  a  shingle  and  planing  mill. 


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REMINISCENCES. 


First  Impressions  of  New  "Woodstock — As  Seen  Many   years  Ago,  and  Now, 
Where  Memory  Loves  to  Linger. 


[By  O.  D.  Sherman.] 

I  came  as  a  traveler, 

Who  is  seeking  a  place  of  rest; 
As  a  bird  with  wearied  wiug 

Flying  homeward  to  its  nest. 

The  evening  shades  were  falling; 

It  was  a  low-hung  autumn  sky; 
And  bird  to  its  mate  was  calling, 

Where  the  woodland  shadows  lie. 

The  pastures  brown  were  lying, 
For  the  year,  it  was  growing  old; 

It  was  beautiful  in  dying, 

For  the  trees  were  trimmed  in  gold. 

Ripe  was  the  corn  on  the  hillside, 
And  crimson  the  orchard's  store, 

As  the  drifts  of  an  ocean's  tide 
Lay  glowing  as  ruddy  ore. 

The  peace  of  God  seemed  bending 
O'er  a  land  of  wondrous  gift; 

As  my  pathway  slow  descending, 
I  saw  through  the  roadway's  rift. 

A  vision  of  rarest  beauty, 

'Twas  a  picture  of  rest  and  peace; 
Where  pleasure  e'er  waits  on  duty, 

And  jarrings  of  warfare  cease. 


I26  HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

'Twas  a  village  soft  embowered 

In  a  green  cup  among  the  hills, 
Where  nature  is  richly  dowered 

And  the  air  with  music  thrills. 

The  sky  of  that  autumn  even 

Grew  soft  as  the  day  grew  old, 
And  fair  was  this  gate  of  heaven, 

With  crimson,  purple  and  gold. 

Now  as  my  days  are  fleeting 

And  the  hour  of  twilight  I  see, 
Sweet  memories  come  to  my  greeting 

Of  the  things  that  used  to  be. 

And  oft  I  see  that  village, 

Bright  gemmed  as  a  pearl  of  the  sea; 
And  often  I  see  the  faces, 

That  were  wondrous  fair  to  me. 

Now  angels  guard  thy  treasures, 

And  peace  be  an  abiding  guest; 
Thy  drink  the  wellspring  of  pleasure. 

And  thy  meat  be  Righteousness. 

[The  first  visit  of  O.  D.  Sherman  was  made  to  New  Woodstock  over 
forty  years  ago,  when  the  stage  route  was  from  Chittenango  down  Coley 
Hill  toDeRuyter.] 


The  following  lines  were  written  upon  the  occasion  of  the  first  church 
tea  after  the  building  of  the  Baptist  kitchen  in  1886  87  and  are  here  inserted 
by  request. 

Once  more  old  earth  on  axis  true 

Has  traveled  through  the  pathless  blue. 
Successfully  her  course  has  run. 

And  eighty-seven's  well  begun  ; 
Eventful  has  her  journey  proved, 

Dread  earthquakes  to  her  center  moved. 
Fierce  cyclones  o'er  the  western  world 

Swift  death  and  desolation  hurled. 
While  not  by  Nature's  freaks  alone 

Were  old-time  customs  quite  o'erthrown, 
But  oft-recurring  noise  and  strife 

'Tween  capital  and  labor  rife 
The  strike,  with  sequent  loss  and  pain, 

Where  anarchy  and  terror  reign  :  — 


HISTORY  OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  127 

All  these  and  more  of  similar  kind 

Have  left  grave  memories  behind  ; 
Enough  in  weakest  minds  to  fix, 

The  year  of  eighteen-eighty-six. 

Yet  not  Calamity  alone 

Has  marked  this  twelve-month  for  her  own, 
For  Progress  on  its  onward  way 

Has  made  swift  strides  from  day  to  day. 
Stern  toilers  in  the  realm  of  thought 

Have  never  greater  triumphs  wrought ; 
While  Truth  and  Right,  with  firmer  tread 

Have  conquering  hosts  to  victory  led 
And  Liberty,  with  torch  divine, 

Doth  to  earth's  darkest  corners  shine. 

Ah,  well,  mid  all  the  stir  so  great 

Which  outer  world  does  thus  create, 
One  quiet  vale  we  all  can  name — 

New  Woodstock  jogs  on  just  the  same. 
Toward  this  retired  and  sheltered  nook 

No  wandering  cyclone  dares  to  look  ; 
Nor  to  upset  old  landmarks  dear, 

Do  e'en  rude  earthquakes  venture  near. 

How  oft,  when,  on  his  homeward  track, 

The  longtime  wanderer  hastens  back 
Along  the  old  familiar  ways, 

Our  friendly  steeple  meets  his  gaze. 
And,  as  it  towers  above  the  hill, 

He  greets  it  with  a  grateful  thrill, 
And  feels  that,  though  in  form  most  strange, 

He  has  one  friend  that  does  not  change, 
And  when,  as  in  the  days  of  yore, 

He  hears  the  bell  ring  out  for  four, 
He  seems  a  school-boy  once  again, 

And  almost  thinks,  with  credence  vain, 
That  surely,  in  this  peaceful  spot, 

Change,  grief  and  turmoil  enter  not. 
Ah,  no  !    What  wrote  my  foolish  pen  ? 

Erase  !     Repeat  it  not  again. 
New  Woodstock  plodding  on  the  same  ? 

Oh,  yes,  and  yet  'tis  not  the  same. 
The  same  well-kept,  well-shaded  street  ; 

The  same  snug  cottages  so  neat ; 


I28  HISTORY   OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

The  same  array  of  village  stores, 

Each  evening  changed  to  cuspidores 
For  groups  of  idlers  sitting  near 

The  cheerful  fire  to  tell  and  hear 
Of  all  that's  thought  or  said  or  done, 

Beneath  the  much-enduring  sun. 
But,  Oh,  the  change  in  those  we  meet 

While  sauntering  down  the  quiet  street, 
And,  passing  through  the  pleasant  porch 

To  enter  the  familiar  church, 
We  turn  about  with  eager  gaze 

To  find  the  friends  of  other  days, 
Wishing,  above  all  earthly  joys, 

To  meet  the  old-time  girls  and  boys. 
Alas,  they  throng  the  aisles  no  more, 

Nor  gaily  crowd  through  chapel  door, 
To  where,  in  all  its  fine  array, 

A  nice  new  kitchen  stands  to  day. 
We  find  at  last  some  forms  we  know, 

Who  move  with  stately  tread  and  slow, 
Or  sit,  with  grave  and  solemn  air, 

And  threads  of  silver  in  their  hair, — 
While  round  them    crowd,  with  cheerful    noise, 

A  strange  new  throng  of  girls  and  boys. 
At  last  we  seek,  with  mournful  tread, 

The  silent  city  of  the  dead, 
And  there,  with  eyes  made  dim  by  tears, 
,  We  read  that  friends  of  other  years 
Have  gone  to  that  eternal  home 

Where  change  and  parting  never  come. 
O,  friends  still  gliding  down  the  years, 

We  died  with  every  waning  day. 
There  is  no  waft  of  Sorrow's  breeze, 

But  bears  some  heart-leaf  slow  away. 
Up  and  on  to  the  vast  To-Be, 

Our  lives  are  going  eternally. 
Less  of  earth  than  we  had  last  year 

Throbs  in  your  veins  and  throbs  in  mine, 
But  the  way  to  Heaven  is  growing  clear 

While  the  gates  of  the  City  fairer  shine, 
The  day  that  our  latest  treasures  flee, 

Wide  may  then  open  for  you  and  me. 

A.  D.  E.     1887. 


Plwto  by  W.  S.  Huntley 


Hardware  Store 


Photo  by  Mrs.  C.  H.  Boyd 

R.  L.  Miller's  Meat  Market 


HISTORY   OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK.  I2Q 


Reminiscenses,  — continued. 


The  tract  given  for  military  purposes  by  John  Savage  extended  west 
on  the  north  side  of  Main  street,  from  the  cemetery  to  the  Floodport  road. 
The  local  cavalry  and  riflemen  met  to  drill  on  the  first  Monday  in  Septem- 
ber preparatory  to  the  general  training  which  they  were  obliged  to  attend 
on  the  fifteenth  of  September  at  Cazenovia.  Among  those  who  belonged  to 
Militia  at  different  periods  were  Col.  Ralph  Bell,  Captains  Salmon  Gage, 
John  Hendee,  Roswell  Savage,  Philetus  Peck,  Terrel  Fuller,  Ezra  Jen- 
kins, and  Willard  Carpenter.  Drum  Major,  John  L.  Underwood.  Privates, 
Marcus  Underwood,  Jerman  Smith,  and  Deloss  Greenman.  The  last  men- 
tioned lives  in  Fenner,  and  is  the  only  one  living,  as  far  as  known,  who 
belonged  to  the  New  Woodstock  State  Militia. 

The  Anti-Slavery  question  agitated  the  Baptist  church  and  probably 
the  whole  community  from  1843  to  1846.  Daniel  Lathrop,  Philetus 
Lathrop's  father,  could  not  walk  with  the  church  because  it  was  not  an 
"Abolition  church."  Another  prominent  member  was  refused  a  letter  of 
dismission  as  he  did  not  assent  to  resolutions  against  slavery  but  asserted 
that  '  the  church  of  Christ  was  not  the  place  to  decide  either  for  or 
against  slavery  to  the  grief  of  brethren."  After  much  discussion  and 
many  resolutions  made,  rescinded  and  amended,  it  was  finally  decided 
that  "  it  was  not  intended  to  coerce  or  control  the  private  judgment  or  ac- 
tion of  any  member,  but  that  every  person  should  be  left  to  judge  and  act 
without  restraint." 

Among  the  prominent  members  of  the  New  Woodstock  Woman's 
Anti-Slavery  Society  were  Mrs.  Nathaniel  Pierce,  and  Mrs.  Burton,  wife 
of  Henry  Burton,  who  came  to  this  place  from  Madison  less  than  sixty 
years  ago  and  purchased  the  farm  where  John  Freeborn  now  resides. 
Under  the  auspices  of  the  society.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Burton  were  induced  to 
take  a  mulatto  girl,  Ellura  Curtis,  then  about  eleven  years  of  age.  They 
educated  and  clothed  her  and  when  she  reached  the  age  of  eighteen,  wish- 
ed to  pay  her  wages.  She,  however,  would  not  accept  them,  preferring 
to  be  considered  one  of  the  family.  As  time  rolled  on,  the  daughter,  Laura 
Burton,  married  Wilbur  Rugg,  who  died  when  her  second  child  was  a  babe 
of  a  week.  Faithfully  Ellura  performed  the  part  of  nurse  and  sister,  and 
as  Mr.  Burton  grew  old  and  lost  his  property,  she  remained  the  tireless, 
faithful  worker,  performing  not  only  the  household  duties,  but  frequently 
doing  a  man's  work  in  garden,  field  and  forest.  In  1899  the  life  that  had 
been  so  full  of  hard  work  went  out,  and  the  name  of  Ellura  Curtis  will  be 
remembered  and  handed  down  to  future  generations  as  one,  who  for 


130  HISTORY  OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK. 

nearly  fifty  years,  by  duties  well  done  and  by  countless  sacrifices,  richly 
repaid  those  who  befriended  her  in  her  youth. 

In  "ye  olden"  times  the  little  girls  thought  they  were  nicely  dres- 
sed if  they  wore  white  aprons  to  church. 

Shoes  and  stockings  were  economically  worn.  The  late  Eliza  Smith 
used  to  say  that,  when  her  father,  David  Smith,  lived  where  Frank  Hunt 
now  lives,  she  used  to  bring  her  shoes  and  .  stockings  as  far  as  the  water- 
ing-trough, and  then  put  them  on  to  walk  into  the  village. 

On  very  cold  Sundays,  Elder  Peck  used  to  preach  wearing  his  overcoat 
and  striped  mittens. 

Ralph  Knight  was  known  as  an  eccentric  man.  When  others,  though 
warmly  clad  were  shivering  with  cold,  he  would  attend  church  wearing 
neither  coat  nor  vest. 

A  letter  written  November  II,  1818,  gives  interesting  items.  Elder 
Peck  was  very  ill  at  that  time,  and  had  three  attending  physicians,  Dr. 
Smith,  probably  Hubbard  Smith  of  DeRuyter,  Dr.  Mitchell,  and  one  from 
the  village.  A  council  was  called  of  seven  physicians,  Drs.  Smith,  King, 
Bass,  Mitchell,  Moffett,  Gibbs,  and  one  from  Cazenovia  Village. 

The  same  letter  states  that  a  meeting  was  held  at  Isaac  Morse's  and  an 
assembly  formed  called  "The  Cazenovia  Ladies  Reasoning  Assembly, 
No.  One."  Miss  Sally  Noble  was  "Directress,"  and  Miss  Lucy  Fiske, 
"  Recordess."  They  reasoned  upon  the  question,  "  By  which  can  a  person 
gain  the  most  useful  information,  reading,  or  frequenting  good  society?'' 
Mr.  Faxon  and  Mrs.  Morse  reasoned  on  the  side  of  frequenting  society. 
Misses  Noble,  More,  Moffett,  and  the  Recordess  defended  reading,  and 
Miss  Lansing  stayed  in  the  kitchen  with  Dr.  Milliand,  as  she  chose  to 
frequent  society.  Question  decided  in  favor  of  good  society.  Assembly 
was  opened  by  Miss  Noble  reading  Prov.  8th  chapter.  Adjourned  to  meet 
at  Daniel  Fiske's  in  two  weeks.  Question,  "Can  a  person  do  a  good  deed 
from  a  bad  motive  ?  ' ' 

Jonathan  Shed,  after  whom  the  village  of  Shed's  Corners  was  named, 
once  lived  in  New  Woodstock.  He  was  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  fre- 
quently married  couples,  always  ending  the  ceremony  with  the  words, 
"What  God  and  Jonathan  Shed  have  joined  together,  let  no  man  put 
asunder." 

Ely  Gunn,  brother  of  Horace  Gunn  is  remembered  as  a  very  good  man. 
He  used  to  sing  with  a  strong  nasal  tone,  and  with  his  hands  on  the  rail- 
ing in  front  of  him,  would  keep  time  to  the  music  by  swaying  his  body 
back  and  forth. 

After  the  baptism  ofE.  L.  Abottand  P.  B.  Peck,  May  5,  1813,  both  of 
the  young  men  went  home  with  Elder  Peck.  While  at  the  dinner  table 
Father  Peck  laid  down  his  knife  and  fork,  and  in  his  calm  but  impressive 
manner,  said  "  This  is  not  the  first  time  I  have  baptized  two  ministers  in 


PlWto  by  Mrs.  F.  L.  Cunningham 

Malty  Boyd,  the  Village  Cat 
Weight  15  pounds,  Age  JJ  years 


HISTORY   OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  131 

one  day."    His  words  were  prophetic,  as  both  of  them  became   preachers 
of  note,  one  carrying  the  gospel  to  the  heathen. 

The  following  is  an  extract  from  the  Baptist  church  records,  "Elder 
Benjamin  Harvey,  of  Utica,  was  here  January  30,  1845,  to  address  the 
church.  He  was  one  hundred  ten  years  old  during  the  month.  Has  been 
a  minister  about  seventy  years.  His  many  striking  and  original  ideas  and 
his  illustrations  of  Scripture  remind  one  of  apples  of  gold 'in  pictures  of 
silver." 

In  1829,  Marvel  Underwood  took  care  of  an  aged  member  of  the 
Baptist  church  called,  "Old  Sister  Goodell,"  receiving  $43.00  per  year. 
The  town  paid  him  $.31^  per  week  and  the  church  raised  the  remainder  by 
assessment. 

When  Dr.  Zenas  Corbin,  son  of  the  pioneer,  Henry  Corbin,  who  lived 
on  the  farm  now  owned  by  George  Dixon,  went  to  Liverpool,  N.  Y.,  to 
practice  medicine,  there  was  only  one  house  in  Syracuse. 

The  village  of  West  Eaton,  known  in  its  infancy  as  Leeville,  derived 
its  name  from  one  of  the  early  settlers,  Philip  Lee,  a  Revolutionary 
soldier  who  served  as  a  private  in  a  Massachusetts  regiment  seventeen 
months.  His  three  sons,  George  P.  Lee,  of  Jackson,  Minn.;  Jermain,  of 
Cazenovia,  and  J.  Warren  Lee,  of  New  Woodstock,  were  born  in  Leeville. 
It  is  doubtful  if  there  are  three  other  brothers  living  who  can  claim  the 
distinction  and  furnish  the  proof  of  being  sons  of  a  Revolutionary  soldier. 

Henry  C.  Day,  formerly  of  Syracuse,  now  living  on  the  place  built  by 
Daniel  Stone,  familiarly  known  as  the  Lownsberry  Place,  was  one  of  the 
actors  in  the  famous  Jerry  Rescue  in  1851.  He  helped  to  mislead  Jerry's 
pursuers  by  attracting  their  attention  in  the  wrong  direction,  thus  giving 
more  time  and  chance  for  Jerry's  escape. 

The  Baptist  bell  used  to  ring  steadily  a  few  minutes  to  announce  a 
death  and  then  toll  the  age  in  tens,  ending  with  the  number  of  strokes 
necessary  for  the  age.  A  woman  noted  for  quaiutness  and  originality  of 
speech  used  to  say  she  did  not  want  the  bell  tolled  at  her  death  because  it 
would  say, 

"Ding,  dong,  bell, 

Aunt  Sally's  gone  to  hell." 

January  13,  1842,  Wilson  Lamb  and  Lucinda  Gardner,  Silas  Lyon  and 
Susan  Holmes  were  married  at  Dwight  Gardner's  by  Rev.  Daniel  Putnam 
under  one  ceremony.  A  unique  case,  for  it  is  doubtful  if  any  other  double 
wedding  was  ever  celebrated  when  one  of  the  grooms  was  a  Lamb  and  the 
other  a  Lyon. 

Rev.  John  Fulton,  pastor  of  the  Baptist  church  in  New  Woodstock 
from  1850-58  was  greatly  beloved  by  the  children,  as  well  as  by  older  peo- 
ple, and  the  awe  usually  felt  for  ministers  seems  not  to  have  existed  in 


132 


HISTORY  OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


his  case.  Mr.  Fulton  always  spoke  to  every  one,  and,  being  exceedingly 
absent-minded,  frequently  repeated  his  words.  As  he  was  walking  one 
day,  he  met  two  little  boys  and  said  to  them,  "How  do  you  do?  How 
do  you  do?"  The  reply,  more  forcible  than  elegant,  was  "  You  go  to—" 
to  which  he  replied,  "Yes,  yes,  yes."  The  same  little  boys  on  another 
occasion  were  stirring  up  a  mixture,  and  Mr.  Fulton  asked  them  what  they 
were  doing.  One  of  them  replied,  "  We  are  making  a  meeting  house,  and 
if  we  have  enough  left,  we  are  going  to  make  a  minister." 

Henry  Fulton,  son  of  Rev.  John  Fulton,  once  climbed  the  lightning 
rod  on  the  Baptist  church  and  turned  the  fish  around  which  serves  as  a 
weather  vane.  An  even  more  daring  feat  is  related  of  a  man  whose  name 
is  unknown  to  us  who  stood  head  downward  between  the  three  tines  at 
the  end  of  the  rod  that  crowns  the  steeple. 

During  the  Lincoln  campaign  in  1860,  at  a  large  mass  meeting  in  Caze- 
novia,  a  huge  log  was  drawn  to  Mill  street  and  placed  near  the  store  of 
Hobbie  and  Rouse.  Warren  Williams,  of  New  Woodstock,  impersonated 
"  Old  Abe,"  and  while  the  band  played  "  Split  the  Rails  and  Fence  Them 
In,"  he  wielded  the  axe  so  vigorously  that  the  chips  flew  fast  and  wide. 
During  the  same  campaign,  there  was  so  much  enthusiasm  in  New  Wood- 
stock, that  eight  little  girls  became  so  patriotic  that  they  formed  a  com- 
pany, each  carrying  a  flag,  and  taking  the  lead  they  marched  through  the 
mud  with  the  men  as  bravely  as  any  of  them. 

The  national  base  ball  game  is  not  of  recent  date.  Nearly  forty  years 
ago,  on  the  ball  grounds  between  the  Baptist  church  and  parsonage,  a 
game  was  played  by  two  sets  of  girls,  the  winners  to  have  a  pound  of 
candy  provided  by  Compton  Ferguson.  The  walk  was  lined  with  people 
and  party  feeling  ran  high.  When  the  umpire  had  made  a  decision,  the 
candy  was  produced,  and  to  soothe  and  sweeten  the  defeated  party,  another 
pound  was  procured  and  given  to  them.  The  winners  were  satisfied  with 
the  glory. 


Lacy  Dutton. 


[By  Request.] 

About  one  hundred  years  ago,  there  resided  on  the  west  side  of  Caze- 
novia  lake  a  family  from  New  England  consisting  of  the  parents  and  two 
daughters,  Lucy  and  Ellen  Dutton.  The  nineteen  beautiful  years  of  Lucy's 
childhood  and  girlhood  were  to  be  crowned  on  her  birthday  by  her 
marriage.  The  eventful  morning  dawned,  the  day  passed,  and  at  evening 
the  fickle,  faithless  lover  and  the  heartless  Ellen,  who  had  been  supplying 
Lucy's  place  as  teacher,  appeared  and  announced  their  marriage  on  their 
way  to  the  home  where  Lucy,  the  anxious  parents,  and  assembled  guests 


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HISTORY  OF   NEW   WOODSTOCK.  133 

awaited  their  arrival.  The  day  that  had  dawned  so  brightly  for  Lucy 
indeed  ended  in  darkness.  The  knowledge  of  the  perfidy  of  those  she 
loved  and  trusted  was  more  than  the  overwrought  brain  could  bear.  The 
once  bright  intellect  became  clouded,  and  Lucy,  "  Crazy  Luce,"  as  she  was 
called,  possessed  with  a  spirit  of  uneasiness,  roamed  unceasingly  over  the 
hills  and  through  the  valleys  of  Madison  and  adjoining  counties. 

Some  of  the  older  inhabitants  of  New  Woodstock  still  remember  and 
describe  her  as  a  person  of  medium  height,  possessing  some  traces  of 
beauty,  and  having  a  remarkably  sweet  voice.  Her  gown,  sometimes 
ragged,  wyas  always  patched  with  many  colors,  and  trimmed  .with  balls  of 
yarn.  In  summer,  her  bonnet  was  covered  with  flowers,  which  she  dearly 
loved.  Her  bible,  surplus  clothing,  and  bundles  of  rags  and  herbs  were 
carried  on  her  arm.  Harmless  in  her  insanity,  at  places  where  she  stayed 
over  night  her  resting  place  was  perferable  the  wood-house  or  cheese  room 
rather  than  the  living  rooms  if  there  were  men  about  the  house,  whom  she 
alwaysavoided  if  possible. 

Mrs.  Hammond  states  in  the  Madison  County  History  that  Lucy 
Button,  after  wandering  thirty  years,  was  taken  suddenly  ill,  and  carried 
to  the  house  of  a  friend  to  die.  A  few  hours  before  death,  her  reason  re- 
turned. She  awoke  from  the  "  long  night  of  j-ears."  All  the  intervening 
time  from  her  nineteenth  birthday  was  a  blank.  But  it  was  soon  told  her 
that  the  terrible  dream  was  a  sad  reality.  The  sister  who  had  so  terribly 
wronged  her,  as  well  as  the  parents  who  cared  for  her  during  their  life- 
time, were  dead.  The  recreant  lover,  with  his  family,  had  removed  some 
time  before  to  the  west.  A  few  former  friends  gathered  at  her  bedside, 
and  a  Christian  minister  offered  a  prayer  for  the  dying  Lucy,  in  which  she 
feebly  joined.  After  a  little,  the  lips  grew  still,  and  the  sorrowful  earthly 
life  of  Lucy  Button  was  ended. 


134 


HISTORY  OF  NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


CAZENOVIA  TOWN  OFFICERS  RESIDING  IN   NEW 
WOODSTOCK. 


C.  A.  BUCKINGHAM,  term  expires  Dec.  31,  1901  Supervisor. 

C.  A.  Fox,  term  begins,  Jan.  i,  1902        -  Supervisor-elect. 

C.  B.  HUGG,   "          "         "      "       "  -     Constable  and  Collector. 

M.  C.  WOOD,  Justice  of  the  Peace. 

F.  L.  HUNT,             ....  Road  Commissioner. 

James  Elmore,  Assessor. 

George  Barber,  Poor  Master. 
H.  K.  STODDARD, 


W.  E.  JAQUITH, 
CHARLES  SLOCUM, 
CHARLKS  HUNTLEY,  . 


*  Inspectors  of  Election  for  First  Dist.  of  Cazenovia. 


BUSINESS  DIRECTORY. 


Corbin  and  Mansfield,  Proprietors  of  the  New  Woodstock  Hotel. 

E.  E.  Cummings,  Postmaster. 

A.  D.  Smith,  Physician,  Surgeon,  and  Druggist. 

C.  A.  Fox,  Notary  Public. 

D.  J.  Parker,  Physician  and  Surgeon. 

C.  B.  Hugg,  Station,  Coal  and  Insurance  Agent,  Dealer  in  Cement,    Water 

Lime,  and  Farm  produce. 
C.  A.  Buckingham,  Proprietor  of  Cheese  Factory  and  Manager  of  the  New 

Woodstock,  Cazenovia,  and  Perryville  Milk  Stations. 
Jaquith  and  Miller,  Cash  Department  Store. 
Cummings  and  Stoddard,  General  Merchandise. 
W.  S.  Huntley,  Dealer  in  Hardware,  Stoves,  Tin  Ware,  etc. 

S.  S.  Hayes,  Shoe  Store. 

C.  H.  Boyd,  Flour  and  Feed  Store. 

M.  C.  Wood  and  Son,  Flour  and  Feed,  Lath,  Shingles  and  Poultry  Supplies. 
K.  E.   Gardner,   Flour,   Feed,   Singles    and   Planing   Mills.     Buckwheat 
Flour  a  Specialty. 

R.  L.  Miller,  Meat  Market. 

Boyd  Brothers,  Saw  Mill. 

W.  Carey,  Blacksmith. 

Alfred  Judson,  Blacksmith  and  Repair  Shop. 


HISTORY  OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  135 

M.  O.  Smith,  Sexton  of  Baptist   Church   and   New  Woodstock  Cemetery, 
and  Gate  Keeper  of  Tioughnioga  Lake. 

Isaac  H.  Dodd,  Sexton  of  Methodist  Episcopal  Church. 

W.  H.  Freeborn,  Dealer  in  Live  Stock. 

Benjamin  Allen,  Auctioneer. 

A.  P.  Mead,  Dealer  in  Baled  Hay. 

Charles  Boyd,  Sr.,  Mechanic. 

Mark  W.  Peters,  Carpenter. 

Isaac  Dodd,  .          " 

Fred  Maun,  " 

Lott  Bush,  " 

Cyrenus  Rogers,  " 

Orson  Childs, 

Edgar  Chapman, 

Geerge  Hitchcock,         " 

Milton  Jeffrey,  " 

Fred  Henry, 

John  Wentworth,  " 

Hiram  Estes,  Stone  Mason. 

Seymour  LaMunion,  Painter. 

Albert  S.  Preston,  Cartman. 

S.  V.  Simons,  Undertaker. 

Louis  Boyd,  Barber. 

Lemuel  Dodd,     " 

Mrs.  K.  Gardner,  Milliner. 

Durward  Griffith,  Florist. 
M.  R.  Burdick,  Proprietor  of  New  Woodstock  Hall  and  dealer  in  Carriages, 

Cutters,  Farming  Implements,  Harnesses  and  Robes. 
Rev.  M.  V.  Jacobs,  Pastor  of   Baptist  Church. 
Rev.  F.  M.  Williams,  Pastor  of  Methodist  Church. 
John  Bacon,  Miss  Carrie  Byer  and  Miss  Alice  Freeborn,  Teachers. 

G.  H.  Moffett,  Truant  Officer. 

Dr.  A.  D.  Smith,  Editor  of  The  Local  Gazette.  Entered  at  the  Postoffice 
of  New  Woodstock  as  second  class  mail  matter.  Published  on  the  first 
day  of  each  month.  Subscription  price,  250  per  year.  For  advertising 
rates  apply  to  W.  E.  Jaquith,  Business  Manager. 


136  HISTORY   OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 

|,ehi£h  yalley  Qoal. 

Best  grades  of  "  Lehigh  "  coal  kept  here.  Our  Alexan- 
dria lump  coal  for  engine  use  has  no  equal.  Genuine 
George's  Creek  Cumberland  Smithing  coal  always 
on  hand. 

Portland  Gement. 

The  Atlas  Portland  Cement  equals  any  cement  on  the 
market.  The  celebrated  Paragon  Wall  Plaster  all 
ready  for  use.  Fresh  Water  Lime,  Canaan  Quick 
Lime,  Fertilizer,  etc. 

Potatoes,  Cabbage,  Apples, 

Bought  and  sold  in  their  season.  Also  agent  for  a  num- 
ber of  Standard  Fire  Insurance  companies. 

G.  B.  HUGO 

Lehigh  Valley  Depot,  New  Woodstock,  N.  Y. 


G.  M.  Boyd, 


DEALER  IN 

ALL  KINDS  OF 


dFlour, 
tfeeb, 
(Brain, 
Salt. 

ALWAYS  SOLD  ON  MARKET  PRICES. 


Photo  by  W.  S.  Huntley 


Plwlo  by  /.  /,.  R.  Minor 


Jaquith  &  Miller's  Store 
Lehigh  Valley  R.  R.  Station 


HISTORY    OF  NEW   WOODSTOCK. 


137 


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New  Woodstock,  N.  Y. 


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NEW  WOODSTOCK,  N.  Y. 

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Clarke  &  Mulligan 


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C.  J.  Bonnet  &  Bartholdi,  Guaranteed  Black  Silks, 
always  in  stock,  Dress  Goods,  Linens,  Embroider- 
ies, Wash  Fabrics,  Laces,  Ribbons,  Foreign  and 
Domestic  Hosiery,  R.  and  G.  Corsets,  Fabric 
Gloves,  Kid  Gloves,  Ferris  Waists. 


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clothing  for 

MEN  FROM  3  YEARS  OLD  TO  103. 

Also,  a  full  line  of  Furnishings  and  Footwear   for   everybody 
at  the  store  of 

R.  H.  NIL-ES  &  CO. 

CAZENOVIA,  N.  Y. 

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The  "RED  STORE  ON  THE  CORNER."          Cazenovia,  N.  Y. 


HISTORY   OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK.  139 


.  S.  PRESTON,* 


Express,  Baggage,  Freight,  Coal,  Etc., 


Delivered  atprices 


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Barn  two  doors  east  of  Railroad.  New  Woodstock,  N.  Y. 

CURTIS  BROS., 
APOTHECARIES.         CAZENOVIA. 


WILLIAM  W  ATKINS, 

BOOKSELLER  AND    STATIONER, 

CAZENOVTA,  N.  Y. 


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140 


HISTORY   OF   NEW  WOODSTOCK. 


INDEX 


Abbott's  letter,  Rev.  E.  L., 7 

Abbott  Family, 85 

Academy  and  other  schools 42 

Advertisements, 136 

Ainsworth  Family, 54 

A.  O.  U.  W.,  History  of, 48 

Baptist  church,  History  of, 36 

Barnard  Family, 90 

Bell  Family, 68 

Boyd  Family 112 

Brownson,  Rev.  Isaac  K., 109 

Buckingham,  C.  A., 121 

Buell,  P.  S 123 

Burdick,  M.  R., 116 

Business  Directory, 134 

Gardner,  K.  E 124 

Carpenter  Family 74 

Churchward,  Runyan  R 95 

•  Clark  Family, 114 

Coley  Family 77 

Corbin  Family 57 

Cumtnings,  E.E 121 

Cunningham  Family 95 

Drake  Family, 113 

Dutton,  Lucy 132 

Elmore  Family, 87 

Ellis  Family, 92 


Endorsement,   A  Friendly, 5 

Epitaphs,  Quaint, 33 

Estes  Family, 80 

Family  Sketches, 50 

Ferguson  Family, 73 

Fox,  Charles  A., 118 

Freeborn  Family, -"59 

Freeborn,  Newell  V, 117 

Frizelle  Family,.... 50 

Fuller  Family, 97 

Gibbs,  Dr.  Levi, 88 

Gorton  Family 101 

Greenman  Family, 71 

Hendee  Family 72 

Hart,  Henry  Payne, 103 

Huntley  Family 115 

Jaquith  Family, 119 

Judson  Family 90 

Kellogg,  Olin  C 120 

Kellogg,  Henry  M., 106 

Lamb  Family,.... 84 

Lewis,  Lester, 105 

Lucas  Family 96 

Lyon  Family 63 

Maccabees,  History  of,.T. 48 

Manning,  Rev.  Eugene  E 123 

Methodist  church,  History  of,. ...4° 


HISTORY  OF    NEW    WOODSTOCK. 


141 


Moffett  Family 66 

Morse,  S.  E., 69 

New  Woodstock,  poem 9 

New  Woodstock,  History  of, n 

Parker,  Doctor  Donald, 122 

Peck,  John, 75 

Pollard  Family, , 82 

Pratt,  Rev.  Stephen  S 123 

Preface, 3 

Reminiscences, 125 

Revolutionary  Soldiers 45 

Richmond  Family,  98 

Richmond,  M.  W. 102 

Richmond,  Mrs.  Caroline  D 100 

Savage,  John  and  family, 70 

Savage,  Roswell, 71 

Scott  Family 81 

Slocum  Family 93 


Slocum,  Gen.  Henry  W 104 

Smith,  Dr.  A.  D 116 

Smith,  Evergene  B no 

Stantou  Family 78 

Stoddard,  H.  K 122 

Stuart,  James no 

Taber  Family 88 

Thomas  Family .94 

Thompson  Family 91 

Thurber  Family 73 

Town  Officers 134 

Tucker  Family 51 

Underwood  Family 61 

Webber  Family 53 

West  Woodstock,  History  of 28 

Wheelock,  Albert  N 119 

Wheelock,  Homer  Edson 120 

Worlock  Family in 


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